Thursday, November 27th, 2008
When I was in DiBruno Bros. getting cheese for a Thanksgiving Day cheese plate, I noticed they had a few Hudson Valley Camembert's, which I had been wanting to try for a while, but always passed it over for other selections. This seemed like a good time to choose this ...
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
The second cheese from Valley Shepherd Creamery was Shepherd's Basket. This cheese is also made from raw sheep's milk and is cave aged for up to 5 months.
The rind has a similar color and pattern to Manchego as this cheese is made in a Basque style. The cheese has a ...
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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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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
I was picking up cheeses for a Thanksgiving Day cheese plate and discovered that Fairfood Farm Stand had some cheeses from Valley Shepherd Creamery that I hadn't tried yet. The first was Oldwick Shepherd.
Oldwick Shepherd is a Pyrenees style raw sheep's milk cheese that has been cave ripened for 3-4 ...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
I also made a visit to the Neal's Yard Dairy store in Borough Market. Unfortunately, it was a Saturday and pretty nice (e.g., it hadn't rained in 15 minutes) so the Market and Neal's Yard were quite crowded. However, the queue to get into the store was only a couple ...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
The second cheese I picked up at La Fromagerie was an Innes Button from Innes Cheese made by Highfields Farm Dairy in Tamworth, Staffordshire. it that was topped with crushed pink peppercorns (hence the red toppping). Innes Buttons are small (45 gram) very fresh button's of unpasteurised goats milk. They ...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
My first cheese shop stop in London was La Fromagerie in Westminster. There are basically two areas: the dry room and the cheese room. The cheese room is a relatively small, glass-enclosed room that is sealed off by a large sliding glass door from the dry room. It is an ...
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