Kategori: Milk And Diary

Global representations of Spanish cheeses are so often confined to Manchego. While this acclaimed cheese, in all its magnificent forms, has certainly earned its reputation, there’s much to be discovered outside of the La Mancha region; there’s cheese-filled culture and history in every corner of the peninsula.

Cheesemaking in Spain

Well Done Lácticos creamery is a well-respected cheese producer with Michelin-starred restaurants and turophiles clamoring for its cheese, but it’s also the definition of unassuming. So much so that when Google led me to a home in a small neighborhood outside of Seville, Spain, I called cheesemaker Rodolfo Del Río

Fruit and cheese are a culinary dream team. Whether you are pairing a tart apple with slices of sharp cheddar – my all-time favorite snack – or arranging figs and grapes on a cheese board, the sweet-savory combination of fruit and cheese is a perennial favorite.

Fruit and cheese are

As the adage goes, the month of March is “in like a lion, out like a lamb.” While this may be true meteorologically, astrologically speaking, March is more: in like a flounder, out like a ram. Welcome to the official beginning of the Zodiac calendar, with fiery Aries leading the

Location

In the Essex Market, 88 Essex St, New York, NY 10002

Focusing on Smaller Producers, But in a Bigger Space

When Formaggio Kitchen New York first opened in 2006, the store was located in the former Essex Street Market in Lower Manhattan and was much smaller. Andrew Clark, the

In tiny Mineral Point, Wisconsin, Hook’s Cheese Company, Inc. is having a moment. For only the third time in history, the company will release its 20-year-cheddar during May 2023. “We made about 1,000 pounds of this batch,” says co-owner, Tony Hook. “It’s already a little over half gone. We’re charging

One morning in 1995, Alan Rosen, who owns Junior’s, the company that produces the iconic New York-style cheesecake, was driving to his Brooklyn restaurant when he heard on the radio that the home shopping channel QVC was hosting

Ainara Ansa is one of those people who may just be good at everything. Warm and well-spoken, an engineer by trade, and now a dairy farmer and award-winning cheesemaker, she’s both confident and humbled by what she and her husband Alberto Migueltora have been

In our series of Cheese Profiles, we further examine those cheeses that have been called out as best sellers from places in our “Cheese Shops We Love” series. Next up, Shooting Star Creamery’s complex but approachable Sagittarius.

“Shooting Star Creamery is flying under

Editor’s note: We first learned about Marissa Mullen when contributor Pamela Vachon shared a story on her thematic ways to build cheese plates. Now they are both back, to talk cheese plates, cheese and the return of socializing. 

I first met Marissa Mullen in the fall of 2019, after