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Why Do Cheese Shops Always Sell Fig Bread and Date Cake?

Posted on December 23, 2017 CheeseAdmin

“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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Grand Ewe’s One Tough Gouda

Posted on July 14, 2017August 6, 2017 CheeseAdmin

Okay, okay. I’ve definitely gotten the memos from my readership that this blog needs MOAR VIDEOZ. And so I took

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430 Pounds of Cheese

Posted on March 27, 2017March 27, 2017 CheeseAdmin

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

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Cutting the (Night) Cheese

Posted on March 4, 2017March 6, 2017 CheeseAdmin

Cutting into a clothbound cheddar is easier when it only weighs 10 or 20 pounds, as opposed to 90. This

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Clothbound Cheddars: Unveiled

Posted on February 22, 2017February 22, 2017 CheeseAdmin

We all know what cheddar is; we’ve seen it, we’ve eaten it, we (most of us) like it. But while

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The Most Dangerous Cheese—But Also the Most Adorable

Posted on January 30, 2017 CheeseAdmin

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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Cutting the (Blue) Cheese

Posted on January 19, 2017 CheeseAdmin

Last week we talked about Shropshire. I don’t have a video of anyone cutting Shropshire right now, but I do

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