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A Year in Centerfolds: 2022


We’re revisiting our 2022 centerfolds and marveling at the beautiful and delicious cheeses we featured in culture this year.

Centerfold: Blu di Bufala


Photographed by Nina Gallant | Styled by Kendra Smith Water buffalo are not an uncommon sight in Southern Italy, where cheesemakers turn their rich milk into mozzarella, ricotta, and other fresh cheeses. In the northern part of the country, however, they are a rarity, and it is rarer, still, to use their milk for aged […]

Why Buffalo’s Milk Cheese Is So Hard to Track Down—And How to Find Some


Buffalo mozzarella has been referred to as the white whale of the cheese world. So why are these beloved cheeses so rare outside of a select few countries?

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