How to Make a Skewered Cheese Plate
Playful and versatile, a skewer satisfies our controlling nature when it comes to feeding people exactly what we intend to feed them.
Around the Board: Spring 2023
In this issue, we created a list of five products to push your cheese pairings to the next level. From inspiring preserves with complex flavor combinations to a date syrup you’ll want to bathe all your cheese in, here’s what we’re excited about this Spring.
5 Cheeses to Woo Your Valentine
Impress your significant other this Valentine’s Day with a cheesy spread that’s sure to make their heart skip a beat. From rich and decadent triple creams to seductive truffle cheese, these are the five best cheeses to serve on Valentine’s Day.
Holiday Pairings with FireFly Farms Spruce Reserve and Potato Chips
Soft and dippable, bark-wrapped cheeses are always an excellent choice for holiday entertaining. Spruce bark imparts a rich earthy flavor on the cheese, while giving delicate wheels extra support so they can age longer and become even softer. Bark wrapped cheeses have long been synonymous with the holiday season because they are often made with […]
Perfect Pairings with FireFly Farm’s Cabra LaMancha
What makes a perfect cheese pairing? According to FireFly Farms co-owner, Pablo Solanet, an ideal cheese pairing is made up of flavors that play on one other. “When you have a good pairing the two flavors compliment each other and they blend, they enhance each other. And that’s when you know you have a perfect […]
Fermented Garlic Honey: Cheese’s New BFF
Most honey you find in the grocery store is sourced from all over the world. By the time it makes it into your shopping cart, that little jar of golden nectar may have racked up thousands of food miles and is so far removed from where it was produced, it’s probably impossible to pinpoint the […]
Pairing Bitters and Cheese Beyond Happy Hour
Sam Unger likes to think of cocktail bitters as the Mary Poppins of flavor. “When we’re making our Pineapple Star Anise [bitters], I’m taking hundreds of pineapples, bringing them into this tiny bottle, then all of a sudden it expands again and it’s able to go into hundreds of drinks,” says Unger, founder of Vancouver-based […]
Savory Cake Towers Move In On Sweet Territory
Photo from @harperandblohm Instagram Celebrations call for cake, but that cake does not have to be sweet. Beyond the elaborate cheeseboard, savory wheels and wedges can be a party centerpiece, and increasingly, the multi-tiered wedding cake is being swapped for a tower of cheese. Instead of choosing between vanilla and chocolate or marzipan and whipped […]
Cheese Plate: In Good Company
A winter cheese plate curated by Jen Mason of Curds and Co. Pairings and experimenting with confidence are at the heart of Mason’s business. “We want cheese to be accessible and some cheeses need a partner to be accessible,” she says.
Pairing Cheese and Classic Cocktails
The British are known for their gins, Ireland has their whiskeys, the West Indies their rums.Every Alpine country has a bitter digestif, and we’ve got the trinity of France, Spain, and Italy to thank for vermouth. Melting pot that we are, the US made a name for ourselves bringing it all together. Around the turn […]
