Happy Halloween!

October 31, 2012

Happy Halloween! Got your Scream Cheese yet? A special-edition of Weybridge from Scholten Family Farm and Cellars at Jasper Hill, it’s the perfect mood-setting selection for your pre- or post-trick-or-treating noshing. (Locals, get it at Cheesetique Del Ray.) Our Whistle Stop Tour is running behind due to Hurricane Sandy… (Your DC correspondent has just regained […]

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Whistle Stop Tour: Verano, Vermont Shepherd, Vermont {American Cheese Month}

October 23, 2012

As much as we love Wisconsin cheeses, it’s time to hit the road again and explore another cheesy part of the country, the Northeast. And we’d be remiss if our whistle stop tour didn’t pull into Vermont, home to some of our favorite cheesemakers and a kick-ass cheese festival each summer. Despite our plentiful consumption […]

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Whistle Stop Tour: Big Ed’s Gouda, Saxon Homestead Creamery, Wisconsin

October 22, 2012

Our whistle stop tour can’t pull out of the midwest without a stop in Wisconsin — and so we bring you to Saxon Homestead Creamery on the shores of Lake Michigan. We’ve previously mentioned Katie Hedrich’s Evalon, a cheese she makes here at Saxon’s creamery. Saxon offers its own spread of award-winning cheeses, and today’s […]

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Whistle Stop Tour: Mackenzie Creamery, Ohio {American Cheese Month}

October 18, 2012

From Indiana the Whistle Stop Tour travels just next door to Cleveland, Ohio, for a seasonal pick: Pumpkin Chèvre from Mackenzie Creamery. A past Best of Show winner at the American Goat Dairy Cheese Competition (2009), Mackenzie Creamery produces fresh chèvre by hand, made from milk obtained from a farm just three miles down the […]

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Whistle Stop Tour: Traders Point Creamery’s Boone County Bloomy, Indiana {American Cheese Month}

October 16, 2012

The whistle stop tour pulls into the Midwest this week, and you may be thinking, “Big deal. You two write about those cheeses all the time.” Yes, an awful lot of Midwestern cheeses regularly appear on the blog, but this week’s featured cheeses are total C+C newbies. I had never even heard of today’s selection, […]

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Whistle Stop Tour: Ipanema from Beehive Cheese, Utah {American Cheese Month}

October 12, 2012

Next stop on the Whistle Stop Tour: Utah! Yes, even the Beehive State is turning out hand-crafted cheeses worth seeking out, though Beehive Cheese Co. has already proved that point emphatically with their Barely Buzzed, TeaHive and other flavored cheeses. The newest addition to the Beehive family is Ipanema, an Irish-style, mild cows-milk cheese rubbed […]

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Whistle Stop Tour: Beecher’s Flagsheep, Yarmuth Farm’s Nonna Capra and Glendale Shepherd’s Island Brebis, Washington {American Cheese Month}

October 11, 2012

When you think about cheese-producing states, chances are Wisconsin tops your list, followed by Vermont and California. Washington? Probably not, but in fact, there are an astounding number of artisan cheeses lovingly made in the Evergreen State, as I discovered during my September vacation. Sadly, I could only take home a few, but on the […]

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Whistle Stop Tour: Visits to Washington’s The Calf & Kid and Mt. Townsend Creamery {American Cheese Month}

October 10, 2012

Though Western Week on C+C started in Oregon, I actually visited a couple of Seattle cheese shops before I headed down to Washington’s neighbor on my recent Pacific Northwest vacation. My parents have lived in Seattle for the past 11 years and I’ve paid many a visit to Pike Place Market, where Beecher’s Handmade Cheese […]

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Whistle Stop Tour: Rogue Creamery’s Brutal Blue and Pholia Farm’s Covered Bridge, Oregon {American Cheese Month}

October 9, 2012

I don’t get many Oregon cheeses back in Minnesota – save for some Rogue Creamery blues and blocks of Tillamook cheddar at Trader Joe’s – so it was a pleasure to discover the state’s true range of cheesy goodness during my recent visit. Though my snug-fitting pants can attest to the enthusiasm with which I […]

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Whistle Stop Tour: Visits to Oregon’s Rogue Creamery, Willamette Valley Cheese Co. and Tillamook Cheese {American Cheese Month}

October 8, 2012

Our whistle stop tour heads west this week, and it couldn’t be better timing. I recently returned from a two-week trip to Washington and Oregon, where I visited cheesemakers and shops that are famous in the Pacific Northwest and beyond for their award-winning cheeses. Today we’ll focus on the Oregon cheesemakers I was lucky enough […]

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