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Getting Our Cheese Recipes On

January 18, 2012

First things first. People often ask how I come up with recipe ideas. Here goes

1. I get inspired. I eat out. I read cookbooks. I visit farmer’s markets. I think seasonally. I read menus. I see what others are doing

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Working on my comeback here on “It’s Not You, it’s Brie.”
I just turned in the first draft of my manuscript last Wednesday and, let me tell you, I had a doozy of a time getting this thing together. More than 45 interviews, 1,032 follow-up questions, lots and lots of writing, testing cheese recipes galore (and [...]

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A Little Behind…

December 14, 2011

I admit it, I’m overwhelmed. My book proposal is due in under a month and I’m working overtime to wrap it up right. Doesn’t help that it’s the busiest season of the year at the wine shop where I work. I can’t keep up, dear readers. I apologize for my absence. I’m sending you my [...]

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Holiday Cheese Recipes: All Hail the Ball & Fondue Parties

November 30, 2011

Union Square is decked out with more white lights than a Diwali festival, drugstore chains are now displaying their trusty battery-powered dancing Frosty the Snowman, and the evites to holiday parties are eying your inbox. The winter holiday season is here. No matter whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, the opportunity to share a glass of bubbly at a party with your friends near some mistletoe, or the seasonal changing of Hershey kiss wrapper color, you’re probably going to be going to or hosting a party sometime soon.

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Robiola di Roccaverano- A cheese & leaf love

November 8, 2011

If Martha Stewart ever got a hold of a Robiola di Roccaverano, I’m pretty sure she’d mandate every cheese be wrapped in leaves before being served in her presence. This leaf-on-cheese action is cuter than a toddler walking a puppy. It’s more adorable than Zooey Deschanel watching a toddler walk a puppy. It proves that leaves and cheese are made to be together.

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My November cheese classes

November 3, 2011

While I’m mainly confining myself to my writing cave (bedroom) for the next couple months until I finish my manuscript that’s due in January, I am emerging occasionally to eat, take hot showers, walk around the block, and teach a cheese class or two.
Here are two classes that I’m teaching at the Cheese School of [...]

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