The Best Bites and Sips from the 2025 Summer Fancy Food Show
The summer 2025 Specialty Food Association Fancy Food Show showcased bites from around the country and globe During a blistering heatwave in New York, the culture team came together for one sizzling Fancy Food Show. Read on for the cheesy (and cheese-adjacent) bites and sips that set our tastebuds on fire. Mother Shrub Drinking Vinegars […]
Sacramento Cheese Week is Almost Here
Get these exclusive restaurant-cheese collabs during the American Cheese Society Annual Conference Sacramento, California, is known as the City of Trees. But while the American Cheese Society’s in town, it’ll transform into the City of Cheese. Browse our guide to discover the exclusive restaurant-cheesemaker collabs taking place through the society’s City of Cheese Menu Pop-Up […]
And the Winner of the 2025 Cheesemonger Invitational Competition Is …
Philly reigns supreme as the 2025 Cheesemonger Invitational competition comes to a close. “Moo. Baa. Maa.” Those are the sounds you’ll hear chanted across a roaring crowd in Brooklyn Steel, a tightly packed warehouse in Brooklyn, New York. You’ll inhale pungent whiffs of delicious cheeses and scan a room chock full of turophiles smiling, clapping, […]
5 Cheese Pairings for Fun in the Sun
These summer pairings are hot to go … to any picnic, that is! Spice up your cheese board this summer with the latest and greatest accompaniments in the cheese world, from hot honeys to sea salt caramels so fancy, you’ll want to eat them with your pinky out. If you need to cool off, do […]
5 Pairings for Your Spring Cheese Plate: Your Ultimate Guide to Seasonal Tastes
These five spring pairings for cheese are cocktail-themed and ready for patio season. Notice crocuses blooming? That’s a sign that it’s time to swap winter cheese plate pairings for spring ones. Break out anything in your wardrobe resembling florals (even if they’re not groundbreaking) and enjoy a picnic with something bubbly to sip. Below are […]
How Cheese Moves Across the US-Canada Border
It takes time, money, and a tightly held quota to push cheese over the US-Canada border Fromage du Verger Cheeses. Photographed by Autumn Wood. “You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.” Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef and writer of unvarnished truths about American restaurant culture, penned that […]
Could a rare French blue cheese be the key to saving microbial biodiversity in cheese?
As technology evolves and the climate changes, could this French blue cheese provide invaluable insight into the world of genetic degradation? Photographed by Emily Monaco Bleu de Termignon’s rugged blue-gray rind is marred with patches of rusty red and snowy white, inherently evoking the flower-filled pastures of the Alpine Parc National de la Vanoise, where […]
Cheesy Spring Horoscopes for Pisces, Aries, and Taurus
Brought to you by Astrolocheese. Did you know the zodiac pairs perfectly with cheese? Spring signs: Read your cheesy horoscope below! PISCES Stellar Essence: Otherworldly, chimerical, intuitive Cosmic Pairings: Meredith Dairy Marinated Farmstead Sheep & Goat Cheese Origin: Australia Milk: Sheep and Goat Accompaniments: Pickled Caper Berries Salty Black Licorice Gin Martini with Preserved Lemon […]
The Future of Cheese is Female
Women entrepreneurs share perspectives on their culinary career journeys at Murray’s Cheese Shop. Sometimes, the recipe for rising to the top is a mix of following a gut feeling plus a dash of luck. On March 13, women entrepreneurs gathered for a sold-out panel discussion at Murray’s Cheese’s Bleecker Street shop in New York—the first […]
Who’s Going to the 2025 Cheese Olympics? Results from the Cheesemonger Invitational: Masters
Two cheesemongers will represent Team USA at Mondial du Fromage, also known as the Cheese Olympics. On Sunday, March 2, 2025, 15 cheese professionals competed in the Cheesemonger Invitational: Masters tournament. Cheesemongers Emilia D’Albero (2024 culture Hot Lister) of Philadelphia’s Formaticum, a cheese paper and knife company, and Courtney Johnson of Seattle’s mobile cheese shop […]
