Tag: raw milk cheese

  • Get Your Goat with Queso Ibores

    Get Your Goat with Queso Ibores

    One of the most frequent requests we receive at my cheese counter is for raw-milk goat cheese. While there are plenty of raw-milk options among our cow’s milk cheeses, there are ridiculously few options in the sheep-and-goat set. We recently brought in a cheese to help fill the void—and add a bit of color to…

  • Fantello Farmstead Creamery: A New Washington Cheesemaker to Know

    Fantello Farmstead Creamery: A New Washington Cheesemaker to Know

    It was a grayish, early spring day in western Washington when I set out to spend my day off doing what I do best: getting cheesy. I drove from my home in Federal Way through the town of Auburn and into an agricultural area beyond that I had never before explored. The space between Auburn…

  • What’s the Deal with Raw Cheese, Anyway?

    What’s the Deal with Raw Cheese, Anyway?

    A woman came into my shop recently searching for “raw cheeses.” She didn’t care what kinds they were, so long as they were raw. This was exciting to me as a cheesemonger, given the hullabaloo this year over raw-milk cheeses. In case you weren’t aware, one person died and seven people became sick with Listeriosis…