Thursday, February 18th, 2010
I'm a huge fan of goat and sheep's milk cheeses, and Spenwood is right up there with one of the best sheep's milk cheeses available.
Spenwood is made by the Wigmore's (in my neck of the woods in Berks) from unpasteurized sheep's milk. It is a hard pressed cheese, which ...
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
I'm a fan of Old Chatham's Hudson Valley Camembert. It's one of my favorite American cheeses. I was in NYC in August and came across Nancy's Hudson Valley Camembert, which I had read about as it was a recent ACS winner.
Nancy's Camembert is a mixture of sheep and cows ...
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
With the delay in posting, I've honestly forgotten where I picked up with sexy little number. It might have been Whole Foods or DiBruno Bros.
Mons-Cazelle de Saint Affrique is a wonderful sheep's milk cheese from the Saint Affrique area in Southern France. The above link to the Whole Foods blog ...
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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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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
The second (and last!) cheese I purchased at Neal's Yard was Flower Marie. This cheese is an unpasteurised sheeps milk, also made by Greenacres Farm, near Lewes, Sussex. The exterior has a very pillowy, white rind (almost air-like, floating above the cheese). The interior is a dense, smooth white paste ...
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