Tag: West Coast cheese

  • How Blue Cheese is Made at Twin Sisters Creamery

    How Blue Cheese is Made at Twin Sisters Creamery

    Looking at a wedge of blue cheese with lines of blue mold rippling through it, you might assume that the mold got there by being injected into the cheese. I have heard this from time to time as an explanation to children or from one adult to another, of how this family of cheeses is…

  • 8 Weeks of Celebration Cheeses: Week 1

    8 Weeks of Celebration Cheeses: Week 1

    Since I spent most of this year being a new homeowner and opening a new store/not publishing blog posts, missing out on all of the fun holidays and special opportunities for cheese-eating during the year, I decided to go big (OK, but not too big) for the winter holiday season. From Thanksgiving planning through Christmas…

  • Upcoming: Three Days of Cheese!

    Upcoming: Three Days of Cheese!

    There’s this wonderful thing in the Bay Area called The Cheese School of San Francisco. They offer classes and tastings year-round, but twice a year they offer a three-day intensive course for cheese professionals. It just so happens that two very lucky Seattle cheesemongers are attending the school’s March course, and I happen to be…