How to Make the Perfect Fondue with Leftover Cheese

Exploring Culture: Challenging Eurocentrism in the Cheese Industry

In culinary school I learned knife skills; I learned the mother sauces and the sauces they spawned. Everything I learned was rooted in classic French style. Everything I was taught had a focus on European standards. But I wanted to cook like my Big Ma—Southern comfort food—biscuits, greens, and grits. I wanted to cook with […]

Cheese Icons to Celebrate this Women’s History Month

This month (and every month) we’re celebrating the women in cheese who produce, sell, serve, and educate about the wedges and wheels we love.

Gifts A Cheese Lover Will Love!

Holidays are here and so is culture's list of gifts for cheese lovers. So go and indulge yourself!

How to Make the Perfect Fondue with Leftover Cheese

Leftover cheese? Unlikely! However, if you do find yourself with odd bits and bobs of brie, blue, and cheddar, don’t bin them. Instead, whip them into something delicious. But before you get to melting, consider this: Cheese is a viscoelastic material, meaning it has properties of both a liquid and a solid. How it responds to force and heat is what determines whether it melts well, stubbornly holds its shape, or turns into an oily puddle.

How a Gold Rush Created A Beloved Brazilian Cheese

Long before the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais became synonymous with cheese, it was synonymous with gold. In the eighteenth century, Brazil stood at the center of global gold production. Thousands of adventurers were drawn to Brazil’s sparsely populated interior by hoping to strike it rich in what became known as the first Brazilian gold rush, turning remote settlements into bustling mining towns almost overnight.

These Cheesemongers Love Serving Hospitality

Three cheese pros share why valuing hospitality is the key to happy customers.

Are These the Spookiest Cheese Spots in America?

It turns out cheese has a pull, even beyond the grave. In the spirit of Halloween, this self-professed horror junkie decided to see if the cheese world is haunted. The answer is a resounding yes: From coast to coast, top to bottom, America’s full of deeply spooky places dedicated to dairy. This includes cheese factories, […]

Is Your Cheese GMO?

People online are talking about GMO rennet. But what's really going on? We asked the cheese experts to breakdown GMOs and cheese.

This Is How Cheesemaking Influenced Folklore & Daily Life

Few foods inspire as much ceremony as cheese. In recent years, couples have even eschewed traditional wedding cakes in favor of multi-tiered towers of beribboned, stacked wheels adorned with roses and greenery like their sweeter counterparts. Or take the modern cheese board. A glass or two of wine with a friend is just a well-spent Friday night, but add a cheese board, and it’s a spread worthy of a toast to welcome news like a promotion or an engagement.

It’s Scorpio Season

It’s 2:33 a.m. and Scorpio scurries into her dark kitchen to forage by the light of the fridge. It’s in her nature to dig deep, so she claws her way into the cold cavern searching for forgotten treasures. Her prize is a relic of feasts past: three slices of leftover pepperoni pizza encased in foil and a half-bottle of table wine. The cheese is cold and rubbery. The wine has oxidized and coats her tongue with tannins. But nothing tastes as sweet to a loner nightcrawler as a meal savored in solitude and steely silence.

Eight Finalists Announced for Young Cheesemonger of the Year

The Academy of Cheese has revealed its finalists for Young Cheesemonger of the Year 2026, following a record-breaking number of entries from up-and-coming cheesemongers across the world. With the caliber of entries also higher than ever before, judges took the decision to increase the line-up from six to eight finalists for the first time. Competitors […]

A Recap of Counter Culture: Portland

We closed out the Counter Culture season in Portland, Oregon, earlier this month with plenty of cider and, of course, plenty of delicious cheese. At Bauman’s on Oak, dozens of cheese professionals gathered for presentations from some of the best cheese brands on the market today. Hot Lister Rufus Musser spoke with charisma about Milton […]

A Fall Cheese Cartoon: Badges of Honor for Every Cheese Lover

Ultimate Parmigiano Reggiano DOP Giveaway

Ready to bring home a serious piece of cheese? Culture has teamed up with Ambrosi to give three lucky winners a 10-pound, 1/8 wheel of 22-month Parmigiano Reggiano DOP, along with a set of tools for cracking it open. Often called the “King of Cheeses,” Parmigiano Reggiano has been made in Italy for centuries, with […]

Make This Vintage Clothbound Cheddar Your Holiday Centerpiece

Put this flavorful stunner from across the pond at the center of your holiday grazing table. For many, a vintage cheddar is simply an old cheddar. But at Quicke’s, the designation is less about age and more about judgment. Produced on the Quicke family’s farm in Devon, England, Quicke’s vintage cheddar is clothbound, naturally matured […]