Tag: blue cheese
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How Blue Cheese is Made at Twin Sisters Creamery
Looking at a wedge of blue cheese with lines of blue mold rippling through it, you might assume that the mold got there by being injected into the cheese. I have heard this from time to time as an explanation to children or from one adult to another, of how this family of cheeses is…
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8 Weeks of Celebration Cheeses: Week 6
It’s hard to believe that we’re now over halfway through the holiday season. Time flies when you’re having fun! This week’s celebration cheese is a no-brainer for a list like this. It is easily one of the best cheeses in the world, and it is always one of the best cheeses in my case. There…
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8 Weeks of Celebration Cheeses: Week 1
Since I spent most of this year being a new homeowner and opening a new store/not publishing blog posts, missing out on all of the fun holidays and special opportunities for cheese-eating during the year, I decided to go big (OK, but not too big) for the winter holiday season. From Thanksgiving planning through Christmas…
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Cookie Butter: A Sweet Pairing for Spring
A few weeks ago, I was kneeling on the floor, stocking 22-pound wheels of gouda into the depths of my knee-knocker cold case. Suddenly, a voice from somewhere above and behind me said, “Excuse me.” I peered upward, and there was nobody. It turns out, the voice came from around the corner of an aisle,…
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12 Bad Cheese Jokes to Help You Enjoy Your Sunday
In honor of Sunday—the last day of the week or the first day of the week, depending on how you view time or whether or not you’re European or American—I came up with some cheesy jokes. They are so bad you probably won’t forgive me. But let’s face it: I just can’t help myself. Happy…
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Shroud of Turin, or Shropshire?
Cheezus smiled on me yesterday… I opened a new wheel of Shropshire from Neal’s Yard, and look what I found! A smiley face on a corner of the wheel’s beautiful natural rind. ☺ I already loved Shropshire, but I love this wheel the most.
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Gorgonzola: A Tale of Two Cheeses
Let’s start by pointing out the fact that many people think “blue cheese” is a specific kind of cheese and “Gorgonzola” is not blue cheese. Gorgonzola is, in fact, a blue cheese, and blue cheese, like “Swiss cheese” is a blanket category that is bigger than most people will ever know. We’re going to focus…
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Four Ways to Appreciate the Blues
Featured image from Jasper Hill Farm. Try everything; try it once. If you don’t like that thing, put something else in your mouth to erase the flavor, and then you never have to try that thing again. You can at least say you tried it. That’s my personal food motto. Don’t tell me you’re one…