Category: Milk And Diary

France produces more distinct cheeses than any other country — though exactly how many depends on who you ask. The late French President Charles de Gaulle famously joked about the difficulty of governing a country with 246 cheeses, though even

The Kentucky Derby is held annually on the first Sunday in May at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The oldest continuously running sporting event in the United States and the first leg of the Triple Crown, it is worthy of watching and celebrating in style with a festive cheese spread

Walk into any reputable cheese shop today, and cheesemongers command the counter with the heavy hitters of the Italian dairy world. They stack shards of crystalline Parmigiano-Reggiano and slice into lush wedges of Gorgonzola Dolce, offering

There’s a cheese so central to Maltese identity that locals simply call it “the cheeselet.” It’s a cute little name for something so essential to the culture. Ġbejna, from the Maltese word ġobna (cheese), refers to small, round cheeses made from just milk, salt, and rennet. These palm-sized

Cheese and mushrooms are a natural pairing, bringing together rich, savory depth and earthy umami. When it comes to this flavor combination, most of the attention has gone to truffle cheeses, but there’s more to the category than truffles alone.

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Serving cheese for dessert isn’t a new idea. From a dinner party finale cheese plate to cream cheese frosting and cheesecake, cheese is often used to bridge the savory and sweet and to end the night with a comforting, creamy bite. But we’re willing to bet you haven’t heard of

You might be skeptical about taking cheese to the beach, just as I was skeptical about Great Lakes beaches. “That’s a lakefront,” I told one Chicago native shortly after I moved from South Florida. “Beaches have palm trees and salt water.” It didn’t take long for

Imagine a cheese that resembles a snowball and oozes like a pierced, poached egg. Or a cheese that browns and blisters when exposed to the 800-degree fire of a wood-burning brick oven. That’s mozzarella, of course, or should I say these are the mozzarellas. There are several variations on

Some of the world’s finest cheeses will never make it to your table, no matter how expansive the cheese selection at your neighborhood grocery or boutique cheese shop, if you’re fortunate enough to have one of those close by.

Why? Two reasons: First, some producers have such small operations and

You can pair cheese with pretty much anything. With Easter coming around the corner, we wondered—why haven’t we tried pairing Easter candy and cheese? Plush peeps, chewy jelly beans, smooth chocolate bunnies… Easter candy is known for being intensely sweet, and while that may make it tough to