cheese
a dairy diary
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Raclette & Cheddar Potage
When one breaches the subject of cheese soup, even amongst gourmands, there seems to be only one right answer: Emmentaler. That hole-y Swiss cheese, which contorts and flexes like Gumby®, is everyone...
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Tumalo Fenacho
Scientists have earned a bad rap for our generally poor writing skills, lack of creativity, and disinterest in anything beyond our intellectual pursuits. But as I aspire to be an exception to that...
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Brennan's 12-Year Cheddar
Twelve years ago, I had my first-ever summer job, as a paper shredder at my grandfather's hardware store. Twelve years ago, the Euro and Napster made their debut. Twelve years ago, this hunk of cheddar...
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Nordic Creamery Mountain Jack
Business trips to Wisconsin are vacations for a fromageophile like me. Within minutes of my business meeting adjourning today, I was en route to Brennan's to stock up on small-batch local cheeses from...
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Guilloteau Saint Angel
I have a lot of friends who "love cheese", but have no qualms about serving a cheese tasting that contains Ritz™ crackers and slices from a grocery-store brand brick of Colby-Jack. If, like myself...
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Roth Käse Knight's Vail
My less-than-pleasant encounter with Knight's Vail may not entirely be the fault of Wisconsin-based cheesemaker Roth Käse; perhaps Whole Foods, the retailer who peddles this tender yellow cheese locally...
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Lincolnshire Poacher
Simon and Tim Jones, fourth-generation cheesemakers from the English countryside, carry on the tradition of perhaps the most prototypically-English cheese: the Lincolnshire Poacher. Like Britons themselves...
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Garrotxa Spanish Goat's Milk Cheese
This Spanish raw goat's milk cheese has proven effective as a cannonball. And while I don't deny the entertainment value of watching a wheel of aged cheese careen through the air, I'll argue that consuming...
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Cowgirl Creamery Red Hawk
The odious aroma of a crusty belly button is released into the room as one unfolds the wrapper to a wheel of Cowgirl Creamery's organic cow's milk Red Hawk. Hailing from one of America's most celebrated...
Janelle J.S.P. Wharry is a scientist with a passion for cultures and cuisines. Easily bored with trendy restaurants and popular attractions, Janelle relishes in the undiscovered, and can always be found wandering down an unbeaten path.
