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How to Pair Cheese and Charcuterie

How to Pair Cheese and Charcuterie

Perfect cheese and cured meat pairings for your charcuterie board!

At Lazy Lady Farm, an American Cheese Pioneer Ponders Her Next Chapter

At Lazy Lady Farm, an American Cheese Pioneer Ponders Her Next Chapter

Nobody makes cheese like Lazy Lady Farm's Laini Fondiller, and in a few years, they might never again. After four decades of producing farmstead cheese on her off-grid, wind- and solar-powered Vermont homestead, this 73-year-old artisan pioneer and veteran goat breeder is thinking about retirement around 2027.

Recipe: Creamy Feta Pasta With Peas and Mint

Recipe: Creamy Feta Pasta With Peas and Mint

A brick of feta is a pasta sauce waiting to happen. Release its potential with this springy, creamy, gently spicy pasta recipe!

A New Era of Cheese for a Century-Old Creamery

A New Era of Cheese for a Century-Old Creamery

Grafton Village Cheese is joining forces with Vermont Farmstead to build a sustainable future for artisan dairy.

The Farm at Doe Run Has the Secret Sauce for Incredible Cheese

The Farm at Doe Run Has the Secret Sauce for Incredible Cheese

For cheese nerds in search of something distinctive and delicious, the Farm at Doe Run has fast become a new standard-bearer in the artisan cheese world.

Recipe: Asparagus With Gouda and Hazelnuts for Spring

Recipe: Asparagus With Gouda and Hazelnuts for Spring

A bit of aged cheese can propel simple roasted asparagus to new heights.

Five Minute History of Women in Cheese

Five Minute History of Women in Cheese

The future (and past!) of cheese is female!

Marieke Penterman's House of Gouda

Marieke Penterman's House of Gouda

If you want to taste good gouda, you've got to talk to the Pentermans.

You've Heard of Natural Wine. Parish Hill Creamery Makes Natural Cheese.

You've Heard of Natural Wine. Parish Hill Creamery Makes Natural Cheese.

"Think about the difference between sourdough and conventional bread. Then imagine there are only five sourdough bread bakers in the United States." Rachel Fritz Schaal doesn't mince words about the kind of cheese that she and her husband, Peter Dixon, make at Parish Hill Creamery in Vermont.

Farmstead Cheese Comes Home to Woodlawn Creamery

Farmstead Cheese Comes Home to Woodlawn Creamery

Seven generations of the Leach family have been raising cows for milk in the town of Pawlet, Vermont since 1831. These days, small farms like Woodlawn are beholden to whatever prices giant dairy buyers set, and most can't make the economics work. So Seth and his wife Kate decided to do something different.

How to Make the Best Cheese Fondue

How to Make the Best Cheese Fondue

There's nothing like gathering friends and family around a table, spearing your favorite snacks, and dipping them together into a pot of molten cheese. We're talking about cheese fondue, and as pro cheesemongers, we've had our share of the good, the gooey, and the grainy. Here are our fon-do's and fon-don'ts to making the perfect pot at home, and a cheese fondue recipe to happily feed a crowd!

27 Years and 2 Generations of Farmstead Cheese at Cato Corner Farm

27 Years and 2 Generations of Farmstead Cheese at Cato Corner Farm

"I thought, if it doesn't work out I could always go back to teaching. That was 25 years ago."

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