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Did you know the zodiac pairs perfectly with cheese? Summer signs: Read your cheesy horoscope below!
A wedge of Comté cheese.
GEMINI
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Stellar essence:
extroverted, curious, raconteur -
Cosmic pairings:
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Comté
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Morbier
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Salted Caramels
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Lesley Stowe Raincoast Crisps Cranberry and Hazelnut Crackers
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Dry Riesling
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Garrulous Gemini’s love language is communication. The celestial twins, ruled by mischievous messenger god Mercury, are hungry to swap gossip.
Two “sibling” cheeses with intriguing backstories that are sure to satiate Gemini’s craving for conversation are the French cow’s milk classics: Comté and Morbier. Serve with a lively glass of riesling and nutty noshes to highlight these cheeses’ toasty flavors.
With rich mouthfeels, fairytale setting origins, and separated-at-birth methods of production, Comté and Morbier have plenty of lore to keep the chatter flowing and the takes hot!
Blakesville Creamery Shabby Shoe. Photo by Adam Detour.
CANCER
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Stellar essence:
sentimental, protective, nurturing -
Cosmic pairings:
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Blakesville Creamery Shabby Shoe
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Green Grapes
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Orange Blossom Honey
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Chardonnay
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Crabby Cancer is the cantankerous caregiver with a heart of goo. Swayed by the moon’s push and pull of the tides, Cancer wades in the primordial ooze of emotions and existence that we all emerge from.
She is the fierce (if not doting) defender of her brood, hearth, and home.
This goat’s milk cheese, modeled after French Chabichou du Poitou, reflects Cancer’s tough-mama duality with a craggy exoskeleton that hides its sweetly supple underbelly.
Pair a puck of weepy Shabby Shoe with lustrous grapes and a reflective pool of honey.
Smoked Cheddar and Muenster fondue is the way to go for Leos.
LEO
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Stellar essence:
Charismatic, magnanimous, regal -
Cosmic pairings:
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Smoked Cheddar and Muenster Fondue
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Bolita Salsa Macha
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Blistered Shishito Peppers
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Double IPA
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The bold and gregarious character of Leo demands drama. Beholden to the self-centered sun, Leo loves to bask in the warm glow of the spotlight.
Serve up a sultry pot of flame-licked fondue to pay homage to this flamboyant feline. Let the melty melange take center stage and provide a supporting cast of shishito peppers, salsa macha, and an equally brassy double IPA to complete the scene.
Like Leo, a fondue feast is a little extra, but oh so worth the exuberance.
Janet Konz
Sun: Aries | Moon: Leo | Rising: Virgo Janet has been astrology-obsessed from an early age. She’s pretty sure her first search on AskJeeves.com was “aries + astrology.” Janet’s exuberance and eagerness to get into the fray is a testament to her Sun in Aries. She is an astrology-savant, musician, raconteur, esthetician, and hairdresser-extraordinaire, all of which give her ample opportunity to scrutinize everyone’s signs and make cosmic connections. She resides in Brooklyn with her vegan companion.
Alana M. Miller
Sun: Aquarius | Moon: Aquarius | Rising: Libra Alana is an avid cook, party-organizer, and archivist who not-so-secretly wants to be a cheese librarian (aka cheesemonger). With her Sun and Moon in Aquarius, she delights in creating systems and then disrupting them – perhaps this is why she sought to merge the taxonomy of cheese and mythology of the zodiac. She has published writing in Broccoli Mag, The Billfold, and the Museum of Modern Art’s Inside/Out blog. She is also co-creator and co-host of the podcast The Soak. When not compiling her own cheese card catalog, Alana enjoys spending time with her beehives, cats, and queso-obsessed husband in the San Francisco Bay Area.
