{"id":2584,"date":"2023-10-12T16:31:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T16:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/5-gifts-to-please-your-cheese-loving-cancer-friends\/"},"modified":"2023-10-12T16:31:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T16:31:25","slug":"5-gifts-to-please-your-cheese-loving-cancer-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/5-gifts-to-please-your-cheese-loving-cancer-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Gifts to Please Your Cheese Loving Cancer Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In my Taurus roundup, I spoke of the time in a horoscope writer\u2019s life when one must reckon with her own sign as one of great magnitude. Now we come to another crucial moment in a horoscope writer\u2019s life, potentially even more important in its gravitas: that when said writer must reckon with her editor\u2019s sign. Could I have simply asked her for her Cancerian recommendations? Probably, if she knew that I knew she was a Cancer, which was research I took upon myself. But what fun would that be?<\/p>\n

Now, had she been a Leo, or a Libra, or a Scorpio, this would probably be less of a deal as any of those signs would have just enjoyed the attention, but Cancers are infamously sensitive people. The first of the water signs, they know no boundaries and feel with great depth. This makes them excellent friends. As a moody sign with a crab glyph, however, it is easy to characterize them as simply \u201ccrabby,\u201d but Cancer\u2019s capacity to hold a grudge is also legendary. They may forgive, but they don\u2019t forget, which makes them dangerous adversaries.<\/p>\n

But! I have been thrown another Zodiacal bone here, and the stars are again going to totally help me out with this one. When I was able to utilize Gemini as a metaphor for cheese pairings, I was pretty excited. But here\u2019s another bit of unexpected astrological poetry: Cancer\u2019s ruling planet is the moon. The MOON! The big cheese itself. A celestial body so close to ours that it affects the earth\u2019s tides so it\u2019s no wonder poor Cancer feels pulled in all directions\u2026but I digress. The moon, in folklore, was thought to be made of cheese. Given that, plus Cancers\u2019 capacity for great emotion, here are 5 gifts to please your cheese loving Cancer friends, the cheesiest among us.<\/p>\n

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Beecher\u2019s Flagship Cheese<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n

There are plenty of cheeses with \u201cmoon\u201d in their name, which I must imagine in certain cases is an homage to the aforementioned moon\/cheese lore thing, and which we will also get to here, but let\u2019s be honest, if the moon were actually made of cheese, it would probably be this one. Beecher\u2019s Flagship is a bright, cow\u2019s milk, 15-month-aged, crumbly cheddar wonder that was basically born to serve mac and cheese, which is the very definition of the kind of comfort sensitive Cancers crave. Also, if the moon were actually made of Beecher\u2019s, I can think of no better reason for space travel. Give NASA whatever budget they require.<\/p>\n

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Cypress Grove Midnight Moon<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n

My rising sign is Cancer, which governs first impressions, so I\u2019m going to leverage that to talk about one of my best first impressions, and one that has solid Cancer sensibilities. Midnight Moon, Cypress Grove\u2019s nutty, aged goat gouda, was the first \u201cfancy\u201d cheese I loved on the spot. (Now I teach and write about cheese. Thank you, Midnight Moon, for being the guiding light.) Its sea salt caramel-like flavor is comforting and approachable, and its bright, ivory goat\u2019s milk paste is nothing if not actually luminous (as far as cheeses go.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Perrystead Dairy Moonrise<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n

In my Cancer roundup for sister site Alcohol Professor, I spoke more about Cancer\u2019s relationship to the sun and the summer solstice than I did about the moon as its ruling planet. In that case, I chose a beer called Dayfall. So it\u2019s fitting here to have a companion cheese called Moonrise. (I dare say they\u2019d make an excellent pairing.) Philadelphia\u2019s new wunderkind Perrystead Dairy speaks Cancercian language with their description of this as a \u201cpocket sized,\u201d washed rind cheese. (I\u2019d sooner keep a cheese in my pocket than a stone as a protective amulet.) For gently wafty Moonrise, cheesemaker Yoav Perry blends traditional rennet cultures with thistle rennet for a silky textured cheese whose spring is as close as most of us may come to experiencing the sensation of walking on the moon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I Heart Cheese: 60 Ooey, Gooey, Delicious Meals for Serious Cheese<\/strong><\/a> Lovers by Mihaela Mitaxa-Albu<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Listen, I was really tempted to make the lit selection \u201cWho Moved My Cheese?\u201d for Cancer but then A) I wouldn\u2019t really get to talk about cheese in this paragraph, which is sort of my job here, and B) see above about accidentally acquiring Cancer adversaries. (I still might do it for Virgo, though.) Instead, I offer a cheese text that goes deep to the emotional heart of cheese as Cancers like to do: \u201cI Heart Cheese\u2026\u201d by Mihaela Mitaxa-Albu. It\u2019s fun to read about the what, who, and when of cheese, or how to design it on a cheese plate, but at its core, what we love the most about cheese is how we feel when we eat it. Cancer understands that better than anyone, as they feel all the feels. These 60 recipes organized by cheese style are a worthy, cheesy undertaking.<\/p>\n

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Crabby Shack Mac & Cheese<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

Lobster mac and cheese gets all the hype, but for my taste crab is a superior filling, and is a handy end to any argument that cheese and seafood don\u2019t belong together. They definitely belong together. Cancers are the cheesiest.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my Taurus roundup, I spoke of the time in a horoscope writer\u2019s life when one must reckon with her own sign as one of great magnitude. Now we come to another crucial moment in a horoscope writer\u2019s life, potentially even more important in its gravitas: that when said writer must reckon with her editor\u2019s … Okumaya devam et “5 Gifts to Please Your Cheese Loving Cancer Friends”<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milk-and-diary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}