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  • The Most Dangerous Cheese—But Also the Most Adorable

    The Most Dangerous Cheese—But Also the Most Adorable

    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 little round ball; weighing around seven to eight pounds and measuring about seven to eight inches in diameter, Mimolette is fairly light as hard cheeses go. It kind of looks like a cantaloupe—or like a little…

  • Why Shropshire Gives Stilton a Run for its Money (and Yours)

    Why Shropshire Gives Stilton a Run for its Money (and Yours)

    Orange cheese has a bad rap right now. But not all orange cheese is created equal. As I’ve mentioned in an earlier post, orange cheese came about in order to stop customers from exclusively choosing summer-milk cheeses over winter-milk cheeses. Since winter milk tends to be lighter in color and more subdued in flavor, and…