Eataly NY Monger is the new Queen of Cheese #CMI2014

June 30, 2014

Last night in the stinkiest warehouse in Long Island City, NY, the 5th annual Cheesemonger Invitational tested the endurance, skill and showmanship of 48 mongers to declare a new champion. After daytime preliminaries, the event opened for the cheese-loving public to taste the competitors’ “perfect bites.” Judges awarded three best bites with extra credit going […]

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Let’s Talk About Wood {#SaveOurCheese Update}

June 13, 2014

Thank goodness for Congress. How often do you hear that? Here’s the deal. If you follow us — or Forbes, the New York Times, or NPR — on social media, you probably heard about the seemingly out-of-the-blue FDA declaration late last week that wood was not an acceptable surface on which to age cheese. This […]

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Ticklemore, England

June 3, 2014

So I’ve had a bit of blogging hiatus lately, and I wish I had a better excuse for why, but the truth is I’ve been so busy that I haven’t been to the cheese shop! Oy, sad on so many levels. I rectified that late last week, though, and restocked my drawer with some dairy […]

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Mango, Cucumber and Smoked Feta Salad

May 24, 2014

Grilling this holiday weekend? Here’s a salad to pair with whatever’s on the grill — a salad inspired by the classic Greek salad, but with a twist. We’ve swapped out the tomatoes (not quite in season yet) for juicy sweet mangoes. And we’ve upgraded the feta with a smoked feta from Vermont’s Maplebrook Farm. Maplebrook’s […]

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Prodigal Farm Seeks Aged Goat (Cheese)

May 16, 2014

It’s been too long since I’ve sampled the goat cheeses of North Carolina’s Prodigal Farm — not since ACS 2012 visited Raleigh — but you can help change that by supporting their Kickstarter campaign to build an addition to their farmstead dairy. The new addition will provide space to brine and age their goat cheeses, […]

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Grilled Cheese and Egg Creams at GCDC

May 7, 2014

Grilled Cheese Month has come to an end, and you’re all out of creative sandwich ideas? You’re in luck, DC’s newest cheese bar is now open. GCDC, as their name implies, focuses on grilled cheese sandwiches, turned out rapid fire from their state-of-the-art convection ovens. I took the curd kids down for lunch during their […]

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Minnesota Cheesemaker Moving to Northern California

April 8, 2014

It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of Alemar Cheese Company and its founder/cheesemaker, Keith Adams. From devouring (ahem, we mean delicately snacking on) his soft-ripened Bent River and beer-washed Good Thunder to toasting a lively ACS experience, we’ve always had a good time chatting with Keith and talking about the future of artisan cheesemaking. […]

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Spring Brook Farm’s Tarentaise Reserve, Vermont

March 28, 2014

We’re not trying to pull a fast one on you. If you’re a long-time C+C reader, you might remember that we wrote about Tarentaise back in the summer of 2009, when we had it as part of a seasonal cheese plate at Artisanal Cheese as part of #chzday09. But there are two big differences between […]

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Barn Raising at Cricket Creek Farm

March 19, 2014

That title’s a tad misleading, the folks at Cricket Creek Farm in Williamstown, Massachusetts, aren’t building a barn, but renovating an existing one — and in the process, seeking to make their young farmstead cheese operation financially and environmentally sustainable. Cricket Creek Farm is the latest to turn to crowd-funding to aid their cause — […]

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Luck o’ the Irish Cheeses

March 17, 2014

We haven’t written about many Irish cheeses over the years here at CheeseandChampagne — just two, by my count. Clearly, a stop in Ireland is in order just as soon as we embark on our grand tour of European cheese heritage. (Sponsors gladly accepted.) In the meantime, here’s a trio I was able to get […]

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