A Cheese I Cantal Love Enough
It’s not enough for the French to have 6,000 types of native cheeses. They have to compete with the English
It’s not enough for the French to have 6,000 types of native cheeses. They have to compete with the English
We all know what cheddar is; we’ve seen it, we’ve eaten it, we (most of us) like it. But while
Let me tell you something about my current Cheese of the Week, Vermont Creamery’s Coupole. This petite little brain of
Milk is milk, is milk, right? Well, no. All milk serves the same basic purpose of nourishing a mammal’s young,
Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, I am crazy about cheese, And I guess I love you, too. Today
Not only do my co-mongers like to say that Sunday is the best day of the week—because it’s Sunday Pun-day,
If you’ve ever been browsing through a nice selection of cheese and stumbled across a container of stark-white curds simply
There are a lot of cheeses we can’t get in the US, thanks to the FDA’s strict rules on importing
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Make no mistake: when I’m talking about “pepper pairings,” I mean hot peppers, chile peppers, spicy peppers! Whatever format they
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Cover image courtesy of Olympia Provisions. The other cheesemongers in my life like to say that “Sunday is the best
Cheesemongering isn’t exactly the most common profession. In other words, there aren’t that many of us. It’s an exciting occasion
Let me preface this by saying that I have nothing against Velveeta or Lil’ Smokies. We even ate the latter
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A question that comes up a lot in the shop is, “what’s the difference between Brie and Camembert?” Typically, it
Let’s talk about one of the cutest little hard cheeses, Mimolette. Its name is adorable. (It’s pronounced “Mee-moh-let.”) It’s a
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This is the transcript of an actual conversation among cheesemongers that happened just this past week. Nobody recorded it, but