Category: Milk And Diary

Two years of running a catering business with a specialty in crafting cheese boards for groups showed Mahfam Moeeni-Alarcon that the Phoenix area was in desperate need of an artisan-cheese shop. In 2019 she opened Mingle + Graze with her husband, Cristobal Alarcon.

A career in cheese—or anything food-related—wasn’t on

As America’s 2nd most popular cheese (the first being mozzarella), Cheddar is so ubiquitous both in artisanal shops and in grocery stores, that it’s sometimes hard to remember that its origin is location-specific, and its pedigree is anything but basic. Named for

While most people don’t typically think of video games and cheese being together, the truth is cheese has shown up in video games for decades. Games have had cheese-themed levels, cheese items that players can use, cheese side-quests as well as having entire games based around cheese.

How do you turn Italy’s most iconic salad into a meal? Just add pasta, of course.

Assembling a Caprese salad — or insalata caprese in Italian — with juicy, sun-ripened tomatoes is one of the great pleasures of summer. With just a

The SF Cheese Fest is back for the 9th time on September 21st, 2024, and for the second year in a row, it will be held at the iconic SF Ferry Building. The event offers a first peek at some new cheeses along

Forget flipping pancakes! A delicious vegetable and cheese strata is the best way to feed a crowd at breakfast.

Entertaining at breakfast or brunch is a regular part of many holidays – from New Year’s Day to Easter to Mother’s Day and right back through Christmas. Despite how often we

European geographic designations such as PDO, AOP, or AOC products used with wine, cheese, and cured meats, etc., enjoy name-protected status throughout the European Union. These distinctions mean that products that have any of those indications, such as Le Gruyère AOP, are considered to be geographically unique: that specific

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when Whole Foods Market conspires to seriously improve the lyrics to a popular holiday tune with its 12 Days of Cheese promotion, running from December 13 to December 24. Who needs drummers drumming when you

Breakfast in Turkey is the most important meal. Unlike many morning meals in the United States, it is not a grab and go event. It is a cultural ritual where the whole family gathers to begin the day together. And cheese plays a starring role. 

If you’re a cheese lover, chances are you’ve got a set of cheese knives somewhere in your kitchen. But the standard trio—a stubby, shovel-shaped spade for chunking cheese, a flat spade for slicing hard cheeses, and a thinner, fork-tipped knife for snagging a hunk of Brie or spearing that last