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Discover Shabby Shoe: Blakesville Creamery’s Twist on A French Classic


The wrinkly cheese with the funny name has quickly become one of Blakesville Creamery’s most popular offerings.

The 7 Best Things We Ate at the 2023 Summer Fancy Food Show


Last week, the culture crew traveled to New York City to attend the Summer Fancy Food Show, a semi-annual trade show for people in the food industry. We ate our way through aisle after aisle of delicious cheeses, charcuteries, non-alcoholic cocktails, mushroom chips, and truffle-infused everything—basically anything delicious you can imagine! Here are some of […]

The Hot List: 9 Cheese Stars to Watch


These nine trailblazers whose contributions to the wide world of cheese are already impressive, and we can’t wait to see what they do next.

Celebrating Women in Cheese, 2023


To celebrate Women’s History Month, culture and Murray’s Cheese collaborated on an exciting project to spotlight the amazing women in cheese.

Best Cheeses 2022: Goat’s Milk


Photo by Nina Gallant | Styled by Kendra Smith ST. GERMAIN (pictured above)Blakesville Creamery | Port Washington, Wisconsin This semi-firm and mild, milky winner is made in a style similar to sheep’s milk, natural rind tommes from the Pyrenees. Only St. Germain hails from one of Wisconsin’s newest creameries. Founded in 2020, Blakesville Creamery makes […]

Best Cheeses 2022


To choose this year’s featured cheeses, the culture team combed through the winning wheels and wedges from the following competitions: World Cheese Awards (2021), World Championship Cheese Contest, American Cheese Society Judging and Competition, Good Food Awards, sofi Awards, International Cheese and Dairy Awards, and the New York International Cheese Competition. Key to abbreviations: WCA: […]

Cheese Plate: Friends in Ferment


Alisha Norris Jones guides us through a microbial pairing wonderland Photographed by Adam Detour  |  Styled by Kendra Smith As a magazine literally named “culture,” we’d be nowhere without the busiest bodies of the food system: live active cultures. You may recognize the term from your yogurt label, but they’re also in most fermented foods—a […]

The 2022 Good Food Award Winners for Cheese


The winners of the 12th-annual Good Food Awards were announced today, and while we congratulate all the winners, we are especially excited to celebrate those in the cheese category! The awards ceremony will be held on March 4, 2022 in San Francisco. For a list of all the winners, click here.          […]

Voicings: Alisha Norris Jones


Cheesemonger Invitational winner and founder of Immortal Milk Alisha Norris Jones talks themed cheese plates, personal inspiration, and more.

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