Spotlight Pairing: CY Eats MáLà Chili Oil
When Christine Yi couldn’t find a chili oil to rival those she loved in China, she created her own.
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 […]
Wackym’s Cookies are the Perfect Base for a Sweet-Savory Pairing
I’m an avid baker, and never met a packaged cookie that wowed me until I bit into a Wackym’s Kitchen Lemon Shortbread at Good Food Mercantile in San Francisco last February. “Ohhhh …” I sighed as I scanned the other flavors lined up on the table and asked the man in the feathered fedora standing […]
Spread-MMMs bring the party to your cheese plate
Like so many food entrepreneurs, Rebecca Montero didn’t intend to get into the business of making her savory spreads. As a young woman in the early 2000s, she moved into a New York City apartment with roommates, and they wanted to throw a party—not a pizza and beer party, but something a little fancier. Tapanade […]
Datehini: Tasty, Good-For-You Partner for Cheese
Editor’s note: A previous version of this story (which appeared in the 2022 Innovation Issue) mistakenly attributed the cheese pairing quotes to Janet Fletcher of Planet Cheese. Many of us are familiar with tahini as an ingredient in hummus. The earthy, roasted sesame seed paste native to the Middle East also appears in both sweet […]
Fermented seaweed is cheese’s unexpected new friend
Going and eating green: Make sustainable seaweed the surprise star of your next cheese board.
