Tag: comte
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8 Weeks of Celebration Cheeses: Weeks 4 and 5
The gig is up, right? You already know that I’m posting two weeks’ worth of celebration cheeses at once because I got behind due to Thanksgiving week and weekend craziness, and the inevitable sinus infection of doom that came after. Well, yes and no. I mean, yes, I got behind on posting; such is life…
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430 Pounds of Cheese
Four-hundred-and-thirty pounds of cheese. Let that number sink in: 4-3-0. It sounds like it could be a metaphor for my life. Or not a metaphor, but rather my reality—although there are way more than 430 pounds of cheese in my shop. It could also refer to my four days in San Francisco for the Three-Day…
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Gruyère and Comté: Two of a Kind
Gruyère: a lot of people know what it is. Many more come into the store looking for it because a recipe told them to. And even more people have no idea what I’m talking about right now. In his book “Cheese Primer,” Steven Jenkins calls Swiss Gruyère, “Everything Swiss Emmental isn’t and wishes it were”…
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Comte-solation
Is that not a gorgeous label on this wheel of comte? I needed a few days to process the US election, events surrounding it, and the subsequent reactions. There’s another post about Swiss-style cheeses in the works, though. Stay tuned for details, cheese nerds!