For any Chicagoans who are interested in pairing classes at Pastoral, here's a good review from Cheese and Cheers:
I was pleased to attend a beer and cheese class at Pastoral‘s Lakeview store on Tuesday. Beer buyer Ryne Schofstal lead a simple, elegant tasting involving Cheddars and beer. Readers may know that Cheese and Cheers conducts similar events on occasion. In putting them together, I always...
These little pumpkin and goat cheese pastries look pretty ambitious, but Arctic Garden Studio claims they're not difficult. Plus, they're delicious, so we should all give them a go:
Each year I go crazy buying canned pumpkin in November. I think it has to do with the fact we hear there is going to be a shortage every year, so when it finally shows up I just go crazy with it. So, I always find myself with extra cans...
Via the Burlington Free Press: an inmate working at the Vermont Correctional Industries Print Shop has been up to some barnyard mischief, concealing the silhouette of a pig inside a logo applied to some 30-odd police cruisers.
Relevant to culture readers, the porcine epithet was ...
Naturally Ella was having a poetic day when she posted this twice baked butternut squash recipe, but we don't hold it against here. Click below to view the full recipe:
Instead of an elaborate post, I leave you with a haiku:
Oh Butternut Squash
You are so good and tasty
Get in my belly
Ingredients:
1 large butternut squash...
In preparation for this weekend's football-centric festivities, Bill Chappell at NPR has some beer and cheese pairing advice:
Nothing classes up a party — even one that's focused on watching football on TV — like good cheese.
And as I learned recently, nothing tastes better with cheese than beer. That's the word from...
The National Restaurant Association is predicting great things for the American restaurant business this year, and unbelievable as it may seem, we're confident that Americans are finally putting good food at the top of their priority list! The LA Times has the story:
If the National Restaurant Assn. is right, eateries across the country will end this year with record...
Via metro.co.uk, the story of John Sears, a retired London engineer, and his persistent failure to clean out his icebox. To wit:
"The cheese was a Christmas present I was given years ago but I missed the use-by date and left it in the fridge. I was making a cheese sauce and didn’t have enough strong cheese so I dug it out. When I opened it I...
If your suffering from a cuteness deficit in your life, then we've found a temporary solution! It's not you, it's brie just posted a roundup of favorite baby animals photos. Mind you these are all dairy animals, which makes it even better:
I woke up inspired this morning to share some favorite photos from dairy farms I visited while traveling for the book. But the photos aren’t of cheese. While taking...
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Cheese Underground is championing a new cheese shop, and it's spunky future owner:
Trying hard not to yawn, and instead thinking this was my requisite "call of the week" from a crazy person with a crazy idea who wanted me to magically help them achieve...
Adam Moscowitz of Larkin Cold Storage has more talents than first meet the eye, one of them being musical. Check out this Cheese's Brothers music video and you'll see what I mean:
• Preserving the British Crumblies
• Winter Wonder
• The Accidental Cheesemaker
• Cheese Portraits
