Happy September, my fellow curd nerds! We’re finally moving past the days of salads and lighter fare and digging into comfort food bliss like salty, gooey, bacon-wrapped cheese! We’ve also got a story about a sweet Septuagenarian and his quest for a wheel of Parm, an actual cheese church, and a roundup of pizza praising quotes that’ll help you justify your love for the pie.

Here’s what you may have missed this week:

• This dad set out on a road trip to buy a giant wheel of parmigiano for his 70th birthday. Is it too late for him to adopt us?
   
• NPR is here to give us all a history lesson on government cheese.
   
• Cooler weather means stuffing our faces, guilt-free, with plates of warm, bacon wrapped blue cheese and dried plums with fresh thyme!
   
• Scottish readers, don’t bother pinching yourselves, this is no dream! Scotland is getting a cheese restaurant!
   
• Speaking of cheese restaurants, the famed Cheese Bar in London launched a crowdfunding campaign to help with their expansion into Covent Garden. Donate here.
   
• Wine and crackers are commonly found in church, so why not cheese?! A church turned cheese factory has answered our prayers.
   
• This past Wednesday was National Cheese Pizza Day but these Instagram captions are here to keep the party going.
   
• If you thought celebrities were the only ones insuring their body parts for millions of dollars (we’re looking at you Rihanna) you thought wrong! This Cheese Graders nose is worth a whole lotta chedda.
   
• Soufflé myths debunked and an awesome recipe to boot.
   
• There are a lot of reasons why a person may switch to milk alternatives. All of them sad. But can those products really be labeled as “milk”? These dairy farmers don’t think so.
   
• Learn how to make your own cottage cheese with this how-to from Bon Appetit.
   
• The next time you go for a hike, forego the trail mix and pack one of these seemingly indestructible cheese balls.
   
• Bored with your boards? Check out this video for a breakdown of what makes for a perfect cheese platter.
   
• If you loved reading about the cheese found in a tomb, we’ve got another ancient cheese discovery! No spooky curses this time though, promise.

Krista Sheley

Krista Sheley is a lifetime dairy lover and artist born and raised in the Midwest. She currently resides in Chicago with her two cat sons and can usually be found scouting new recruits for her army of houseplants.