cutting the cheese – The PhCheese

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

“This is cheese?” That’s the question—always practically shouted, always with incredulity—we get 99-percent of the time when a customer notices

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

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

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

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

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

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