Tag: cheese history
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Everything You Didn’t Realize You Needed to Know About Irish Cheeses
Somebody (my mom) asked me last week if I was going to write any posts about Irish cheeses leading up to St. Patrick’s Day (I was planning to). Since we don’t carry many varieties of Irish cheese in my shop, I was concerned that I wouldn’t have much to write. In truth, the only cheeses…
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What Makes a Cheddar Cheddar?
I’ve been writing a fair amount about cheddars on here over the past few weeks. It’s a category of cheese that deserves a lot of attention, if only to match its huge presence in the Anglophone foodscapes. After originating in the tiny corner of Somerset and flourishing among the great English cheeses, Cheddar spread not…
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Clothbound Cheddars: Unveiled
We all know what cheddar is; we’ve seen it, we’ve eaten it, we (most of us) like it. But while the name “cheddar” already conjures a place (England), a process (cheddaring), and a style of cheese (duh), the types of cheddars are diverse—adding layers of meaning to a common term. Today I’m interested in just…
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Cow, Sheep, Goat: What’s in a Milk?
Milk is milk, is milk, right? Well, no. All milk serves the same basic purpose of nourishing a mammal’s young, but how that milk accomplishes its goal is different for each animal. Cheeses made from cow’s milk are perhaps the most prevalent in the United States, but goat’s milk cheeses and sheep’s milk cheeses are…