Jeanne Carpenter of Cheese Underground came back from the the Sonoma Valley Cheese conference with tales of cheese, yes, but mostly bacon:
Bacon at a cheese conference, you ask? Yes, ma'am. After spending three days talking, breathing and eating nothing but cheese with nearly 100 of the...
Kirstin Jackson, of it's not you, it's brie blogging fame, has some suggested dessert cheeses and pairings:
No offense to my other great dessert loves, carrot cake with orange-cream cheese frosting, or peanut butter and chocolate ice cream, but I’ve never been of the mindset that one needs to end the night with a sugary bang. Maybe just a light ka-boom.
For me, cheese supplies enough of...
Great profile of Nature's Harmony Farm in Georgia, written by Andre Gallant in the Athens Banner-Herald:
Out in Elbert County, Tim Young and his wife, Liz, produce cheese that’s influenced by the French and English but adds Georgia-inspired and environment-loving customs into the process.
Tim Young is enamoured with old-world farming and cheesemaking methods....
Sue Riedl at the Globe & Mail had a run-in with Fiscalini Bandaged Cheddar and came away singing its praises:
I sat down intending to make thoughtful, detailed tasting notes on the...
For anyone who missed last night's Ustream event online, you can still watch it here! Cathy Strange gives a solid lesson on Parmigiano Reggiano (the king of cheese!) and answers viewer questions:
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The Irish Times has the story on Cashel Blue and the Grubb family, who are plugging along through hard times, and doing just fine:
For the Grubb family, making a living from an 80-acre dairy farm in the 1980s was no joke. With butter mountains and milk lakes dotted across Europe, they knew they needed to add value to the milk they produced....
Here's a great video from the BBC featuring a premature calf named Clementine who's being nurtured to health in the farmer's house. She's all legs at the moment. Click through to watch the video:
Farmers in north Devon are hand-rearing a calf in their home after it was born prematurely and its mother had no milk. Richard and Tracey Martin from Torrington...
George Washington liked ice cream too, or at least the stuff they were calling ice cream back then. Where'd he get his ice? The Potomac River in the dead of winter. The Salt has the story on that, along with Washington's other eating habits. Note: the family had Double Gloucester Cheese imported on the regular:
That ice was stored in a dry well...
Max McCalman writes more on the recent anti-cheese movement. He has something extra for Dr. Neal Barnard, author of the article "Cheese and the Obesity Epidemic:"
I suppose Dr. Barnard has only been exposed to the more industrial styles of cheeses, bereft of important nutrients. If one of these less pleasing and less nutritious cheeses was all that was available it would make it more difficult to argue the pros of cheese. Fortunately there is growing appreciation of...
Madame Fromage has created a new dish using Spring Brook Farm Tarentaise, butternut squash, and eggs. It's a time investment, but it may just be worth it:
At our house, we have squash issues. My beau and I love to stock up on butternut and acorn every fall, but unless we make time to cook with them they stack up like heads on the counter. On a recent Sunday, I decided to have at them. I invented Eggs...
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