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Is Cheese Better At Room Temperature?


Some cheeses are best straight from the fridge, while other types of cheese might benefit from warming to room temperature.

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Top 5 Tips Every Cheese Lover Should Know


The following five best practices will ensure that your lifelong cheese quest is quite enjoyable.

Blue Mold Cheese

Cheese Styles: Externally Rinded Blue


These externally ripened cheeses are basically blues turned inside-out.

Moldy Cheese

Ask the Monger: Is the Mold Growing on My Cheese Dangerous?


Got moldy cheese? Eataly Cheesemonger Yahn Van de Walle explains why you shouldn’t worry about it.

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Do You Know PGI? A Case Study in Bayonne Ham


PGI is a protected geographical indication that tells you where your food comes from. Essentially: high-quality food that you can trust. We break it down here with Bayonne ham PGI.

clean your cheese board

How to Clean Your Cheese Board


Cheese boards aren’t cheap — here’s how to clean and protect your board for the long haul

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What’s that Stuff Inside Burrata?


Solid or liquid? Cheese or cream? To be daintily dolloped or shoveled with a spoon? If you’re miffed by the stuff that explodes out of your burrata ball, you’re not alone. “There’s a lot of misinformation out there in the world about stracciatella,” says Rynn Caputo of Pennsylvania-based Caputo Brothers Creamery, who crafts her own version […]

What’s The Difference Between Cow’s, Goat’s, and Sheep’s Milk?


Cheese expert Gianaclis Caldwell unveils the differences between milk-types and how it all affects the resulting cheese.

Ask the Monger: Does Cheese Have Probiotics?


Does cheese have probiotics? Probiotics are having a moment. Walk into most grocery stores today and you’ll see a large section devoted to these life-giving bacteria. But what are probiotics—and why the sudden focus? Here’s the skinny: Probiotics are living microorganisms, like bacteria and yeasts, that function on many levels, but they’re thought to be […]

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