Tag: special cheese
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8 Weeks of Celebration Cheeses: Week 7
One of the qualifying factors for a cheese to be considered a “celebration cheese” is its availability. I’ve talked about some cheeses that are more difficult to get because of how they are imported, and I have mentioned that other cheeses are only seasonally available. When you eat what is in season, when it is…
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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…
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Shroud of Turin, or Shropshire?
Cheezus smiled on me yesterday… I opened a new wheel of Shropshire from Neal’s Yard, and look what I found! A smiley face on a corner of the wheel’s beautiful natural rind. ☺ I already loved Shropshire, but I love this wheel the most.