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Northwest Dreaming: A Cascadia Creamery Trio
As we may have mentioned here once or twice before, I grew up in Oregon. Sadly, I left home right around the time Portland became a foodie mecca (yes, pre-Portlandia even). Now that I know what I’m...
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World Cup of Cheese: Team Comté or Team Paški Sir?
Any football-loving cheese fans out there? While we would’ve loved to see a South American team in the final, the all-Euro final four do make it a little easier to find cheeses to represent each...
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Jasper Hill Farm is King of the Haystack
I’m back from the American Cheese Society conference in Pittsburgh and while I’m still coming off my lactic buzz, it’s time to give a hearty round of applause to our friends at Jasper Hill Farm. Not...
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Dispatches from Cheese Camp ‘18
It’s always a treat to have the annual American Cheese Society conference take place within driving distance, and this year’s provided an excuse for me to finally make my first trek to Pittsburgh. It...
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American Cheese Month Spotlight: Pennsylvania
October is our favorite month of the year: American Cheese Month! Coincidentally, we also celebrate an anniversary (Colleen) and birthday (Jill) this month, so all the more reason to break out the...
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Sogn, Shepherd’s Way Farms
Shepherd’s Way Farms may hail from Jill’s home state of Minnesota, but the farm’s Big Woods Blue has held a steady spot in the blue cheese rotation in my house, as well. So I was delighted to come...
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Idyll Gris, Idyll Farms
Michigan isn’t a state that crosses our cheese-radar often, but I’ve enjoyed sampling the goat cheeses of Idyll Farms when I do come across them. This duo was a refreshing delight, the award-winning...
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North Fork Munster, Redhead Creamery
We’ve been fans of Alise Sjostrom’s Redhead Creamery since the early days way back in 2013. After growing up on the family dairy farm, Alise studied at the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese and...
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Big Sur, Stepladder Creamery + the Cheese Cave
I bring up my PNW roots fairly often, but as an interlude between there and my current east coast residence, I was fleetingly a Cali girl. For four years that forever spoiled me for winters and...
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Getting Schooled on American Artisan Cheese (ACS 2019 Best of Show Winners)
When you picture the source of a Best of Show cheese, you’re probably imagining grassy green fields, maybe rolling hills, a creamery in a red barn. And most years, you’d be pretty accurate. This year,...
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