Apparently February 10th is National Cream Cheese Brownie Day. Surprised? We were too, but we got over it quick and have moved on to celebration - aka brownie binging. Join us, and the folks at CNN!
It's a true love story when rich fudgy brownies meet tangy cream cheese. You have the whole day to bliss out over this complete perfection, and marvel at how they ever existed without one another.
There's an art to making a dense, fudge-like brownie with a cheesecake-...
Ted Williams, the man with the golden voice, is paying back the world for his rapid rise from homelessness to fame and fortune, by helping out fans with some custom-spoken Valentine's Day greetings:
"Golden Voice" Ted Williams has received a lot of love and support throughout the past year, and now he wants to give back during this season of love. With his soulful voice, Mr. Williams will spread a little bit of love...
Michael Sanders at the New York Times has the story on mead, and its growing popularity and reputation. It's not only for the gods anymore:
Put a glass of white wine to your nose, and, with the right winemaker and the right grapes, floral notes rise up. With a glass of mead, it is as if you were holding the flowers themselves.
“One bottle of mead is made from a half-pound of...
Whole Foods blogger Melissa Traverse paid a visit to Jasper Hill Farms, and came away with a good story:
Jasper Hill Farms in Greensboro, Vermont is making some of the finest cheese available, and they produce a number of truly unique and delicious cheeses sold at many of our stores, including Harbison, Bayley Hazen Blue, Landaff and Cabot Clothbound Cheddar. I spent an afternoon at the Jasper Hill creamery in upstate Vermont with Mateo Kehler, one of its two co-founding...
Mark McClusky shows us how to make our own, far superior Velveeta using Comté, Wisconsin cheddar, and gouda. It's definitely not Kraft's recipe, and it sure tastes different, but it ends up looking almost exactly the same. It even has Velveeta's wonderful melting ability:
This episode of My Go-To Dish features Mark McClusky, special projects editor at Wired magazine and Wired.com. McClusky has reported on and learned about modernist cuisine from some of its most well-...
Joe Satran at HuffPo Food, has the story on Murray's new Valentine's Day cheese, Love at Mast. What makes this cheese so special? It's got chocolate in it, for one:
The words "chocolate" and "cheese" are two of the best uses ever for the letters "ch." And as girls' best friends go, they're much more affordable than diamonds. They've had brief...
Cheese shop mystery series writer Avery Aames loves cheese, and recently has discovered just how many other people share her love. Now she's fully immersed, and her latest novel Clobbered by Camembert is just hitting the shelves. Oh and another thing: she reads culture!
A few months ago, I wrote “Life is great; cheese makes it better” in one of my newsletters. Lo and behold, suddenly people are tweeting the saying and posting it on websites. Why did I write it? For...
Max McCalman has some important things to say in response to the implication that cheese is responsible for our nation's obesity problem, and he is making sure everyone knows:
The causes of obesity are not linked to the effects of consumption of dairy products. Some of the larger culprits in this weight gain are not the types that most people suspect: whole milk and full-fat cheeses. Instead, a significant part of the blame rests with the low-fat and skim-milk dairy...
Lactalis American is beginning work on a new plant in Nampa, Idaho, this spring. Locals are looking forward to more jobs:
The 61,300-square-foot fresh mozzarella production plant, slated to be operating by the spring of 2013, will be built this year behind the existing Lactalis plant east of Nampa at the intersection of Franklin and Star roads.
Production of fresh mozzarella at the Canyon County plant will increase from 7...
Some sobering news for the everyone who knew and loved Mandy Reed, as well as for her business, the Swaledale Cheese Company, in England. Best wishes to her family and friends:
Mandy Reed, 47, was the director of The Swaledale Cheese Company, based in Richmond, North Yorkshire, and lived in nearby Scorton with her daughter, Louise.
Mrs Reed was discovered in the garden of the property next to her own in Grammar School Court at 5pm on Sunday after police were alerted...
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