Marcella The Cheesemonger
A Feline Foodie shares his thoughts about cheese…and humankind.
Monthly archive July, 2011

Kona Grill – Cherry Creek Mall – Denver

  The Lady is in Denver for ten days, leaving The Man and me to fend for ourselves… it’s not easy… The Man, while he tries, doesn’t speak feline the way The Lady does… but we survive, counting the days until she returns… which will be Tuesday evening… Today, after her work in the Murray’s...
Reypenear Goudas from Wyngaard Kaas

Reypenear Goudas from Wyngaard Kaas

The Dutch Cheesemaker, Wyngaard Kaas naturally ripens its cheese in an old warehouse located on the Old Rhine River in Woerden, Netherlands. The one hundred-year old warehouse contains shutters which open and close to adjust and control the micro-climate inside the building. In the winter, additional heating is added. By using natural methods to age...
Collier's Powerful Welsh Cheddar

Collier’s Powerful Welsh Cheddar

Vegetarian-Suitable – Made using a microbial rennet In Wales, the coal miners were called “Colliers”; a sturdy group of men who worked the mines in semi-darkness and hard conditions. Collier’s Powerful Welsh Cheddar is named after these brave men who daily risked their lives and considered cheese a staple of their diet; particularly their midday...

Murray’s Cheese Shops Heading For Boulder, Colorado… Join in the Fun!!!

  Do You Want To: Work in the world’s best cheese shop? Join the cheese revolution? Become an expert cheesemonger? Are You Ready to: Work hard and learn something new? Sample cheese from around the world? Talk to customers, make them laugh and sell lots of cheese? If you answered “Yes!!” to these questions; You...

Westfield Farm Capri

Vegetarian-Suitable – Made Using Microbial Rennet Naturally Lowfat Cheese There’s a Humankind Adage that “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”… The Lady is a testament that the adage is NOT always true. When she and I began this cheese journey, one of our earliest tastes of goat cheese was a hard goat cheddar...
Todd Trethowan’s Gorwydd Caerphilly

Todd Trethowan’s Gorwydd Caerphilly

  Made Using Raw Milk All right, I admit that the first review I wrote of a Caerphilly was less than flattering and quite a few of you, my loyal readers, took the time to let me know what an ignorant jackass I was… in my defense, what The Lady and I tasted was a...

Green Dirt Farm Farmstead Bossa

  Vegetarian-Suitable – Made using Microbial Rennet A washed rind, sheep milk cheese made in the USA? Made in Missouri; the heart of Cow-land… how did this happen??? Luckily for all of us cheese nerds, a group of women own and operate a farm in the Missouri River Valley northwest of Kansas City… like I...

Portland’s Own Steve Jones Wins Second Annual Cheesemonger Invitational!!

Woohoo!! Our very own Cheesemonger Extraordinaire, Steve Jones, owner of Mt. Tabor’s Cheese Bar, out slung 39 other top cheesemongers from around the world to win the Second Annual Cheesemonger Invitational. Congratulations, Steve!! Portland couldn’t be prouder!!!   Photo Copyright 2011, Bob Galivan For competition particulars, please see the official website.

Mouse Vs. Mousetrap

One of The Lady’s BCFFs sent her this video which she shared with moi. It’s got everything I like: a mouse and cheese… or should I say… cheese and a mouse. Upon doing my “due diligence”, I discovered this film was created and made by Filmmaker, John Nolan. You can visit his website by clicking...
Bellwether Farms San Andreas Farmstead Cheese

Bellwether Farms San Andreas Farmstead Cheese

 Made with Raw Sheep Milk & Vegetarian Suitable Cheese Fellow cheese lovers, The Lady’s new cheese gig is just about the best thing that ever happened to this Feline Foodie. Second only to the day The Brain deployed me to Burbank to assume the command recently vacated when the Mighty Mike Tyson was called home...