How Does Cheese Get to the Store?
Following the chain of cheese distribution It’s important to know where your favorite cheeses and accompaniments are coming from and what it takes to get them from farm to table. We chatted with Sonia Chandwaney, vice president of sales and marketing at Peterson Cheese, a Seattle-based importer and distributor since 1947, about a cheese’s journey […]
Expand Your Cheese Vocabulary
Want to impress your friends and/or local monger? Expand your curd-lexicon! Our cheese dictionary is packed with terms to help you understand cheeses and talk to cheesemakers and cheesemongers with confidence: Affinage: The craft of maturing and aging cheeses, from the French word affiné, which translates to finished or refined. Affineur: The person who cares […]
Find Out How Cheesemakers Craft Unique Flavored Cheeses
A conversation with Wisconsin cheese legend Chris Gentine. Chris Gentine, Founder and President of Deer Creek Cheese and Licensed American Cheese Grader. Photo courtesy of Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin. culture: Back when you started Deer Creek Cheese in 2006, Wisconsin cheddars really built the foundation. At what point did you decide it’s time to get […]
Four Shopping Tips From a Pasta-making Professional
Love eating Italian cheese? Read this before your next trip to the grocery store. Meryl Feinstein, the pasta-making professional behind the popular Instagram account @pastasocialclub, doesn’t mess around when it comes to her Italian comfort food or cheese picks. Below is a list of her top shopping tips for selecting the best cheeses. Meryl Feinstein’s […]
The Best Cheese Gifts of 2024
If you didn’t get all of your holiday shopping done on Black Friday for your cheese-obsessed loved ones, read this. Are you tired of gift guides yet? Don’t be—because this one’s all about the best cheese-adjacent and cheese-themed gifts money can buy. Whether you’re grappling with the friend who fancies themself a home chef or […]
The Best Cheese Boxes to Gift this Holiday Season
Cheese boxes make great holiday gifts. Trust us, we’re professionals. It may only be November, but the sleigh bells tend to jingle earlier each year. Which can only mean one thing: It’s time to start thinking about the gifts you’re going to give friends and family at holiday gatherings this year. Luckily, your friends […]
More Than Khachapuri: Explore Georgian Cuisine at this NYC Restaurant
If you’re at all tuned into cheese media, you’ve likely encountered mesmerizing images of khachapuri, a traditional Georgian bread bowl baked with a luscious filling of cheese. Dotted with cubes of butter and an egg yolk and mixed tableside to create molten cheese ribbons, khachapuri “puts on its own show,” says Tamara Chubinidze, owner of Manhattan’s Georgian restaurant Chama Mama. “It’s very Instagrammable.”
What Makes Le Gruyere AOP Special?
Wheels of Le Gruyère AOP Alpage aging at Alpage de la Moesettaz in Le Brassus. Photographed by Mallory Scyphers A teenage boy donned in rubber boots and a white apron walks in and taps his father on the shoulder. In a hushed voice he asks a question in French. The father laughs and answers him, […]
Seven Fall-Favorite Cheeses You Need to Try
With autumn comes a shift in seasons and cheeses. Gone are your lavender-infused goudas and rinds dipped in wildflowers—a dip in temperatures means it’s time to dip into smoky blues and pumpkin-spiced logs. Fall for these seven cheeses with harvest time twists. Roth Cheese’s Smoked Moody Blue Blue Cheese If there’s a chill in the […]
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City as Cheese
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City cast is bold, complex, and crave-able, three words that could also describe our feelings toward cheese.
