Barinaga Sheep Ranch: Marshall Matters.

July 27, 2010

Cows dot hills in California, not sheep. So when a new wheel rolls around with a pretty ewe on the label, people notice. When the cheese it produces rivals Vermont Shepherd in complexity, people start running after the wheels to chase down a taste.

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French Cheese: Nine Things I Learned.

July 20, 2010

While sitting in my room in a French bed and breakfast in the Jura region of France, I compiled a list of what I learned about France and cheese. It is longer than the following nine items, but I won’t share them all. I don’t want you to think that I actually spent one of [...]

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Links du Fromage: News & Cheese Loveliness

July 13, 2010

Because the world of cheese is wide and vast and I can’t possibly meet all your dairy needs, here are some of my favorite Links du Fromage this month. Feel free to leave links to your own favorites that I missed in this post’s comment section.
If you need even more reading, check out  Gordon Edgar’s Cheesemonger [...]

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Lincoln Log: Like Bucheron but Better

July 6, 2010

Zingerman’s Lincoln Log is made in the grand tradition of European goat cheese classics Bucheron and Cana de Cabra, but because Lincoln Log is made in the states, you’re going to love it even more.

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That Cheddar Tang: Fiscalini Farms

June 30, 2010

It wasn’t until I visited Fiscalini Farms one swelteringly hot, fine Modesto spring day that I truly understood the cheddar tang. There at Fiscalini, I witnessed the act that gives cheddar its sharpness, its spicy character, its oomph.

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Bellwether Farms: Sheep’s Milk Heaven

June 23, 2010

With visions of fluffy lambs jumping over wheels of golden cheese stacked on Sonoma’s emerald hills, a friend and I drove with happy hearts to visit Bellwether Farms. Cheesemaker Liam Callahan doesn’t normally give tours- his facilities aren’t currently set up for handling visitors- so this was a very special ocassion.

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