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Table of Contents: Best Cheeses 2017
Our annual Best Cheeses of the Year issue offers just a taste of the greatness that came out of the cheese world in 2017.
Chile Con Queso For Totchos
Processed cheese gives this dip its characteristic silky texture. Slather your tater tots with this chile con queso.
Carnitas for Smoky Blue Corn Nachos
Seared and slow roasted carnitas to go on top of a pile of smoky blue corn chips.
A Refreshing Wedge Salad
Crispy shallots (find them at Asian grocery stores) add a nice fried crunch to the salad, while the oranges offer a sweet burst of freshness. They’re both perfect foils for the creamy blue cheese. Use leftover dressing as a vegetable dip—it will keep in the refrigerator for about five days.
Shop Talk: Cheese Importers, Longmont, Colorado
Lyman White of Cheese Importers boasts of having something for everybody: Fresh, blue, natural-rind, stinky, too far gone for some, just right for others.
Shop Talk: East End Food Co-op, Pittsburgh
A Pittsburgh cooperative that has been serving the community for nearly four decades.
Shop Talk: Country Cheese Company, Ontario, Canada
Tammy Miller of Country Cheese Company in Ontario, Canada, has built her store as a place where cheese lovers don’t feel intimidated.
Chällerhocker: The Cheese With A Name, And A ‘Face’
Chällerhocker’s label was intended to depict a happy scene: A child poking his head outside of a cheese cave, as if to declare, “The cheese is finished! The cheese is aged!”
TABLE OF CONTENTS: AUTUMN 2017
From Brie and Challerhocker to figs and beer. All the stories from our Autumn 2017 issue are in here.
