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
Since I spent most of this year being a new homeowner and opening a new store/not publishing blog posts, missing
Two weeks ago, one of my best friends and ex-cheese comrades, Chelsea, brought our old mentor/boss-lady, the illustrious Kim Martin,
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“Where’s your bathroom?” – That’s the No. 1 question I answer all day, every day at work. Despite the mundaneness
“Where’s your goat cheese?” I answer this question at least three times a day at work; my response is usually
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If I could only smell one scent for the rest of my life, it would probably be the scent of
This has been a big year for The PhCheese so far. Not on the blog front so much, unfortunately, but
I grew up consuming Parmesan that came out of a green shaker. It was grated, it was white, and it
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It’s the cheese that nobody knows how to pronounce in our goat cheese section. How do you even ask a
The other day, a mother and her pre-teen daughter were in the shop buying cheese. In our soft-ripened cow’s milk
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Once upon a time I wrote about Mahón, and my deep and undying devotion for that cheese. I share those
This weekend, an older couple came into the shop looking for Death & Taxes. While I knew exactly what cheese
Ah, the dead of winter. That means different things to different people, to be sure. In general, we associate this
Sorry I’ve been MIA, my dear cheesy friends. We’ve spent the last 6 weeks trying to buy a house in
It’s only taken me half of January to get back online, but the holiday hangover is not at fault. Sadly,
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“This is cheese?” That’s the question—always practically shouted, always with incredulity—we get 99-percent of the time when a customer notices
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