While famous for its agriculture and strong local food movement, Maine is not commonly heralded as a cheese mecca -- but that may soon be changing.
We keep seeing artisanal cheese displays at markets and on menus in Maine—goat, cow, and sometimes sheep's milk varieties. Even some of Maine's small towns have Euro-style cheese shops.
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Written by Elaine Khosrova
Does goat cheese each day keep the doctor away?
As farmstead goat dairies around the country swell with their annual arrival of springtime baby kids and the lactic windfall they cause, fresh goat cheese gems are fast coming to market. If you, like us, are seeking out spring’s special crop of creamy chevre logs and delicate crottins, it’s good to know these cheese babies are not only luscious—they’re also among the most healthful of dairy...
If your ideal getaway includes a cheese spree, then a cruise vacation may be just the thing to float your proverbial boat. Modern cruise ships are often destined for dairy lands around the world. At Viking River Cruises, marketing executive Julie Rosoff says cheese lovers “will be in heaven aboard ships that sail through such ‘cheese’ countries as Holland and France. Passengers can find cheese at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with each...
Ah, Valentine’s Day. The beloved (yet often hated) “Hallmark” holiday full of various love declarations, including cards, flowers, chocolates, and my favorite – romantic dinners. I’m partial to fancy, candlelit dinners at home, since there’s a lot to be said for someone willing to put the thought and effort into an entire meal just for you, rather than simply shelling out cash for oysters and a bottle of wine. Not that I don’t enjoy seafood and vino on the waterfront—I do, but you gotta step...
Oranges. The road from Catania airport to Ragusa was lined with orange groves bearing fruit of every size, shape, and hue. In some places the orchard floor appeared almost carpeted with its bumper crop of fallen fruit. With flowers in bloom everywhere, Sicily seemed to be in all its glory in January despite the cooler than normal European winter.
Moving south from the valleys surrounding Mount Etna, the landscape became drier and more desertlike, leaving behind the...
Simple, sweet, light and lemony.
LCC's culinary mastermind Jacquelyn Buchanan shows us how to make some easy, cheesy tarts with lemon curd and chevre. The recipe is great because you can make your own curds and shells, or do what I do, and make a run to Trader Joe's for a little help!
This tempting recipe comes to us by way of Allison Hooper of Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery.
It lightenes the tradtional meat-and-ricotta formula considerably with fresh goat cheese and vegetables, transforming it into a savory vegetairan supper.
Also, bonus cute goat footage! Get the full recipe over at VB...
As many of you may know, Daphne Zepos, champion of American (and all) cheese, passed away early last week, leaving family members, friends, and the adoring cheese world behind. The New York Times published this piece in her memory:
Ms. Zepos could wax more poetic still. In describing the sensory pleasures of a given cheese, her husband said on Thursday, she might invoke...
Julie Diers never dreamed of becoming a hop farmer. She was content being a schoolteacher in the mountain community of Palisade, in Western Colorado, where she’d recently moved onto a small plot of land.
“I’d found this beautiful Norman Rockwell farm with a house, but I had no intention of growing anything,” she explains. “Then my pension plan started going downhill, and a neighbor suggested that I cultivate hops. He said, ‘You should see how high they’re trading on the stock...
Artisan cheesemaking was an early herald of today’s emerging fermentation revival. Raw-milk cheeses in particular are especially delicious, and also supportive of good health, precisely because of the biological complexity that they embody.
Even though bacteria produce sublime delicacies and we need them to live, we have been taught to fear and to kill them. This bias is reflected in regulatory frameworks that assume that bacteria beyond specific strains chosen for utilitarian...
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