Second Helping: Belle Chevre Grits with Sun-Dried Tomato {Tasia’s Table Giveaway}

October 7, 2012

Before we head West on our American Cheese Month tour, we wanted to share a second dish for the Tasia’s Table virtual potluck.* While Jill made the delicious ravioli, I wanted to try something truly Southern: grits. I ate a few meals in North Carolina this summer, and came to the realization that that there […]

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{Recipe and Giveaway} A Taste of the Cheesy South from Tasia’s Table

October 4, 2012

Our focus on the South this week yields a bonus for Cheese+Champagne readers in the form of a new cheese-centric cookbook! Tasia Malakasis, the owner of Alabama-based Belle Chevre, began making delectable chevres and wildly creative goat-cheese breakfast spreads just five years ago, and she’s sharing her favorite Southern-inspired (and Greek-inspired, too!) family recipes in […]

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Whistle Stop Tour: Brazos Valley Cheese’s Eden, Texas {American Cheese Month}

October 2, 2012

Despite one last look at New York cheese, this first week of American Cheese Month is devoted to the South here on Cheese+Champagne. With the traditional market dominance of Upper Midwest, New England and California cheesemakers, their Southern counterparts often don’t receive their fair share of attention, which is a pity since many of our […]

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Whistle Stop Tour: New York {American Cheese Month}

October 1, 2012

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. American Cheese Month is here! Now we celebrate the best of American cheese every day, but this month we’re going to do it even harder. We’re breaking out the bubbly, the cider, the bourbon, and any other all-American beverage to toast our beloved cheeses and the American […]

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Across the Pond, Keeley’s Cheese, New York

September 27, 2012

While we were able to meet several cheesemakers at the New Amsterdam Cheese Market & Dairy Fair, others were represented by NYC’s top cheese shops. Such was the case with Keeley’s Cheese from the Finger Lakes, introduced to us by Amy of Lucy’s Whey. It wasn’t a tough sell — just look at the pudgy, […]

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Toma Primo, Cooperstown Cheese Company, NY

September 20, 2012

I’m a New Yorker by marriage — married to the New Yorker-type for whom “New York” means only the City. In the dozen or more years we’ve been visiting the in-laws in the city, I’ve only been upstate on two brief occasions. Of course, I’m fully aware of New York’s finer cheesemakers that hail from […]

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DC Cheese: Righteous Cheese Opens, More Local News

September 14, 2012

Union Market, the District’s newest foodie gathering spot, officially opened this past weekend. Not all vendors are fully up and running, but Righteous Cheese is opening its bar this evening. Stop in Friday, Saturday or Sunday for fromager Carolyn Stromberg’s yes, righteous cheese and beverage pairings. (Union Market is only open weekends until the rest […]

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Cato Corner Farm’s Hooligan, Connecticut

September 11, 2012

Yes, I realize that Connecticut is not New York, but hell, it’s close enough. Do you want to read about a great cheese or not? I thought you did. Last year when I posted about Brigid’s Abbey from Cato Corner Farm and mentioned it was the first cheese I had tasted from Connecticut, Colleen couldn’t […]

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Sunday Cheese and a Figgy Spritzer

September 9, 2012

Oh, Sunday. Somehow weekends with two young children are never quite as relaxing as one might hope. For some reason little people aren’t born with a sleep-in-till-noon gene and while they may be content parked on the couch in front of Nick Jr. for hours on end, that doesn’t exactly win you a parent of […]

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Whole Foods Best Butchers to Face Off at Meatopia

September 6, 2012

This is not directly cheese related, but the sad fact is that not every calf (or kid or lamb) is able to grow up to be a dairy animal. That doesn’t mean they can’t live happy and productive lives, however, and I tend to like my meat like I like my cheese: from an animal […]

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