Cheese Name Debates Between the US and EU
What’s all the fuss between the U.S. and E.U. around cheese names? Miss Cheesemonger jumps into the fray
Cheese Bars in Paris
You love cheese; you are travelling to Paris, where should you go for a cheese dinner?
Reporting from Bra, Italy: 2013, The Year of American Cheese
A picture perfect moment: new world cheese in very much an old world setting. When Ihsan and I first visited Bra, the show was very much for Italian and European cheeses. How times have changed! We are so proud to see our friends from the United States showing off how far we have come as […]
Reporting from Bra, Italy: Marcel Petite Comte
The first time that we visited the Fort Saint Antoine and tasted Comte was in 1999. Jason Hinds introduced Ihsan and I to Claude and Phillipe- who we have worked with since, via another friend Pascal Trotte from Paris. Tasting with Claude and Phillipe was a very intimidating first experience, and we certainly had to […]
Reporting from Bra, Italy: Looking Forward, Looking Back
Every 2 years, Slow Food organizes “Cheese,” a festival dedicated to and named in honor of the preserved preserved milk product. Tucked away in mountains of Piedmont, Bra is a small medieval town that is transformed into a sea of white tents with cheesemongers, cheese-lovers, cheese makers, farmers, food tourists, townspeople all jostling to taste, […]
Running a Cheese-Shop … For Dummies
This guest blog series is by Andy Swinscoe, who recently opened The Courtyard Dairy in North Yorkshire, England. The first few weeks. First of all, I needed customers. I’m still working on that one. We all have friends and family, but after I’d persuaded all of those nice people to buy, I still needed an […]
Opening a Cheese-Shop … For Dummies Part III
This guest blog series is by Andy Swinscoe, who recently opened The Courtyard Dairy in North Yorkshire, England. Part Three – chilling it down. Refrigeration. You probably know this, but chilling any space generally sucks moisture out of the air. That would not only affect the quality of my cheese but would mean the cheese loses […]
Opening a Cheese-Shop … For Dummies Part II
This guest blog series is by Andy Swinscoe, who recently opened The Courtyard Dairy in North Yorkshire, England. Part Two – getting it open. I quickly realized that what I thought was hard – finding the location – was in fact the easy bit. It was now November and I had my work cut out: I had […]
Opening a Cheese-Shop … For Dummies
This guest blog series is by Andy Swinscoe, who recently opened The Courtyard Dairy in North Yorkshire, England. Part One – choosing the right place I wanted a cheese shop. Somewhere where I could sell the best cheese and mature/refine it as well. But I couldn’t find where to locate it. To return to the […]
Munching on Gruyère in Gruyères
This year is a great year of European travel for me. I am visiting Switzerland, Germany, France, and England, so you can be sure I will be writing and tasting plenty! I update my Facebook and Twitter (@msscheesemonger) daily, and you can see more of my writings on my blog,Miss Cheesemonger/. The day I arrived […]