Regions to Watch: Austria
If you love cheese, you know the Alps—the 750-mile-long stretch of peaks crosses dairy lodestars like France, Italy, and Switzerland, and it pretty much goes without saying that your local cheese shop carries Alpine greats Comté, fontina, and Gruyère. But until recently, turophiles have been sleeping on the range’s vast eastern half—namely, Austria. Known more […]
Champignon Mushroom Has Character and History
Champignon Mushroom combines the buttery-smooth, lightly savory taste of the creamery’s famous double cream base, adds an extra layer of oozy cream, and studs the paste with handpicked white mushrooms. The milk for the cheese comes strictly from a herd of cows in Allgäu, Germany, a region known for its dairies. But which came first, […]
Planet Cheese: I’d Say They Nailed It
Von Trapp Farmstead is spreading the love by bringing its formerly Northeast-exclusive Mt. Alice to the West Coast