Archive for the ‘Vermont’ Category
Monday, September 7th, 2009
I'm in catch up mode right now with recent cheese reviews (more about that in future posts). The following posts are from several cheeses I tried on a recent visit to Houston.
The first cheese was Cabot Clothbound Cheddar. I had been looking for this cheese for quite a while ...
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Grafton Clothbound Cheddar is a raw cow's milk cheese made by Grafton Village Cheese Company in Grafton, Vermont. The cheese is bound in cheesecloth and cave aged (at Jasper Hill Farm) between 10 and 12 months. This apparently is Grafton's attempt at making an authentic clothbound English Cheddar on par ...
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Yet again, another Sunday, another convenient opportunity. I just happen to be in the vicinity of DiBruno Bros., so I figured it would be worth a quick trip to check out the goods. I quickly noticed something unusual and thought it might just be the elusive Bi-Partisan from Lazy Lady ...
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
I was at Di Bruno Bros and was looking for a desert cheese and as I was eyeing the blue cheese selection, I saw Jasper Hill Bayley Hazen Blue and new I had to try it based on all the positive, nay, glowing, reviews.
Bayley Hazen Blue is a Stilton-style ...
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
I picked up a few cheeses at DiBruno's for the Thanksgiving meal cheese plate. One of the more adventurous cheese's I selected was Twig Farm Soft Wheel (or Washed Rind Wheel as it's called on the website), from Twig Farm in West Cornwall, Vermont.
This was about as stinky a cheese ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
The third cheese I bought at Saxelby's was Goat Tomme made by Twig Farm in West Cornwall, Vermont. The cheesemonger at the counter highly recommended this cheese and I can't thank her enough!
It's a raw goat's milk cheese, aged 80 days, that has a thickish, natural rind. Goat Tomme has ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Honestly, there are times when someone else just captures the essence of a cheese in writing so much better than I ever will. I was at DiBruno Bros. checking out what local cheeses they had and saw Lazy Lady Farm's Filibuster, which I had been wanting to try. Why had ...
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