Villajos Artisan Manchego
Raw Sheep’s Milk Cheese The Man’s BFF, Gary and wife, Nancy, gave us a wheel of Villajos Manchego Cheese from Spain. As discussed in the earlier post about Yorkshire Wensleydale, Manchego is also a protected status cheese both under Spanish law and the EU rules. To be designated as Queso Manchego, the cheese must fulfill the following...
Yorkshire Wensleydale in Final Stages to Obtain Coveted Protected Status
Wensleydale, a white, crumbly cheese with a grassy tang, made at the Wensleydale Creamery at Hawes, North Yorkshire has entered the final stage to secure “Protected Geographical Indication” (PGI) status. Currently, this is the only creamery producing “Yorkshire Wensleydale”. If approved, other creameries in the protected area would be allowed to produce this cheese using the...
Sally Jackson to Close Down: A Sad Ending for a Pioneer Artisan Cheesemaker
The Lady and I have spent quite some time this morning reading many articles about Sally Jackson and the E. Coli outbreak traced to/blamed on her and her cheesemaking facility. In August, The Lady had the great pleasure of tasting Sally’s raw milk sheep cheese and proclaimed it one of the best cheeses she has...
Gordon Edgar picks the Best New Cheeses of 2010
Gordon “zola” Edgar, our favorite radical and all-around good guy cheesemonger, picks his favorite cheeses for 2010: Cheesemonger author Gordon Edgar selected the Best New Cheeses of 2010 for the San Francisco Weekly‘s SFoodie blog last week. Take a look at these great ideas to add to your holiday table! It shows the strength and popularity...
Sally Jackson Cheeses Recalled
It is with great sadness that I report the following: E. Coli Prompts Recall of Gourmet Raw Milk Cheese by Mary Rothschild | Dec 18, 2010 A longtime, highly respected Pacific Northwest cheesemaker has been linked through an epidemiological investigation to an E. coli outbreak, resulting in a nationwide recall of all its gourmet raw...
Rogue Creamery’s Caveman Blue
Raw Milk Cheese Vegetarian-Suitable Cheese The Lady brought home another winner from Cary Bryant and David Gremmels and all the great folks who make Rogue Creamery cheeses. Caveman Blue is a result of painstaking cheesemaking by David and Cary that began in 2002 soon after buying the creamery from the cheesemaker legend, Ig Vella....
Cheese Underground Announces "Cheese Limerick" Contest Winners
My cheese friend, Jeanne, from Wisconsin Cheese Originals held a contest for Cheese Limericks which your humble Feline Foodie (that would be me) entered and I am pleased to announce that I was a runner-up with the following limerick: I have a cheese in my fridge; It’s named Upland’s Pleasant Ridge. It’s won best of show,...
Spaulding Gray & The Lady Wish You A Very Merry Christmas…
At cheesemonger.wordpress.com, we reached 100,000 unique hits today and in the past 2 and ½ years we have reviewed more than 750 cheeses (that’s a lot of cheese love…). We have written more than 450 posts about cheese and created 30 pages of additional cheesy information and our never ending passion for all things cheese. We also...
The Kudos Just Keep Coming
As recently reported, CulinaryArtsCollege.org named our cheese blog one of the “50 Best Cheese Blogs on the Internet“. And now… Cheeseball.org has named Cheesemonger’s Blog (that would be this blog) one of the “Top 60 Cheese Blogs” It’s been a great year for your favorite Feline Foodie (that would be me) and The Lady. we...
