{"id":4004,"date":"2024-09-12T03:02:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T03:02:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-09-12T03:02:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T03:02:09","slug":"the-best-cheeses-for-rosh-hashanah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/the-best-cheeses-for-rosh-hashanah\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Cheeses for Rosh Hashanah"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Traditional Jewish New Year food by azerbaijan_stockers on Freepik<\/a><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, takes place on the first day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei\u2014on the Gregorian calendar, that falls in September or October. Unlike Shavuot<\/a>, it isn\u2019t a traditionally dairy-focused holiday, but there are plenty of ways to include cheese in your Rosh Hashanah celebration.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s more a honey and fruits holiday, but cheese is a good pairing for that,\u201d says Noemie Richard Stein, maitre fromager consultant at Gvinage<\/a>, an Israeli company that offers cheese education and experiences. She notes that since Rosh Hashanah is a festive time spent with family and friends, cheese lends itself nicely to Rosh Hashanah celebrations. \u201cHere in Israel, in general, holidays mean cheese, not just on Shavuot,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n

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Brent Delman, founder of The Cheese Guy<\/a>, which produces and distributes artisanal kosher cheeses, recommends serving a lunchtime Rosh Hashanah cheese board. Traditionally, Rosh Hashanah dinners include meat, which cannot be eaten with dairy products under kosher dietary laws. In addition, if you or your guests are kosher-observant, you\u2019ll be serving kosher cheeses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eating apples dipped in honey on Rosh Hashanah is a popular Ashkenazi Jewish tradition, symbolizing the hopes for a sweet new year. \u201cBlue cheese has this very savory complexity that can be a nice match with apple and honey,\u201d says Stein. <\/p>\n

Delman recommends a traditional pairing of sharp cheddar with apples, especially if you\u2019re serving an apple pie for dessert. When it comes to honey, consider the honey\u2019s specific flavor notes\u2014he suggests pairing nuttier, more intensely-flavored honeys with aged, hard cheeses like sharp Cheddar, manchego, and parmesan. For a lighter, herbaceous honey, he recommends fresher, brighter cheeses like brie, camembert, fresh chevre, and fresh mozzarella.<\/p>\n

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Persia Fior di Tiglio photo credit BKLYN Larder<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mandy Wynn, proprietor of Brooklyn-based cheese shop BKLYN Larder Cheese & Provisions<\/a>, likes to incorporate cheeses aged with or made with honey in her shop\u2019s Rosh Hashanah gift boxes and catering platters. One option is Beehive Cheese Company\u2019s Seahive, a Cheddar-style cheese rubbed with honey and sea salt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another cheese made with honey is Perisa Fior di Tiglio, an Italian raw cow\u2019s milk cheese. \u201cIt\u2019s aged as it hangs, so it creates this divet in the top of the cheese as it weighs itself down,\u201d Wynn says. \u201cThen they pour honey into the top of the cheese. By the time it\u2019s aged and you eat it, you can\u2019t see or taste specifically honey, but it\u2019s infused in the entire paste.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Cheese Guy goat cheeses photo credit The Cheese Guy<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pomegranates are another food traditionally associated with Rosh Hashanah, symbolizing fertility and abundance. In addition, the numerous seeds represent the 613 mitvot, or commandments, in the Torah. \u201cThe pomegranate is a very important element of Rosh Hashanah,\u201d says Stein. \u201cIt works very nicely with fresh goat cheese.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nettle Meadow Fig & Honey Fromage Frais<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThat fresh, tart, sweet [flavor of pomegranate] goes nicely with goat cheeses,\u201d agrees Delman. \u201cYou can even coat a fresh goat cheese with the pomegranate seeds. [At The Cheese Guy] we have a goat cheese made with little honey crystals, that would be a very nice pairing with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wynn recommends serving an interesting, flavored chevre, such as Nettle Meadow Artisan Cheese\u2019s Fig & Honey Fromage Frais, a spreadable cheese made from goat and cow\u2019s milk, or LeClare Creamery\u2019s honey goat cheese. Read more <\/em>about Nettle Meadow<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Cheese Guy Fromage De Paulette photo credit The Cheese Guy<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to serving apples and pomegranates, there is a custom of eating new fruits, or fruits that you haven\u2019t consumed over the past year, on Rosh Hashanah to bring in a sweet year. \u201cOften that means tropical fruits,\u201d says Delman. \u201cGuava, starfruit, cherimoya, dragonfruit, things like that.\u201d He recommends pairing tropical fruits with The Cheese Guy\u2019s Fromage De Paulette<\/a>, a semi-soft, washed rind cheese similar to Port Salut or raclette. The cheese also has a unique Jewish tie: it\u2019s named for Paulette Fink, a French-Jewish nurse and resistance fighter who helped save 1,500 Jewish children from the Nazis during WWII.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind when choosing cheese for Rosh Hashanah is the focus of the holiday: rejoicing and reflecting as one year draws to a close and another begins. \u201cBe creative and have fun!\u201d encourages Delman. \u201cIt\u2019s a joyous holiday where we bring in the new year and celebrate life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe focus of Rosh Hashanah is renewal and the beginning, and a beginning of contemplation\u2014it\u2019s [followed by the Days of Awe,] 10 days of reflecting on the past and making decisions about the future. Are there cheeses you can pick that speak to that for you?\u201d asks Wynn. \u201cWhat is a cheese I loved a long time ago? I\u2019ll put that on the board with another cheese that\u2019s brand new to me. That gives you the idea of reflection and decision-making for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

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