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How to Pair Cheese and Whiskey

How to Pair Cheese and Whiskey

Wine and beer may be the most common pairings for cheese, but they're far from your only options. Believe in whiskey and cheese!

February 2023 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

February 2023 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

Cheese all day: that's the promise of February's monthly cheese club shipment. Representing three diverse styles and origins, each comes into its own at a different time of day for three distinct meals. Read on to learn about this month's selections and sign up to have this month's club shipped straight to your door!

Spring Brook Farm: Raising a New Generation of Cheese Lovers With Raclette

Spring Brook Farm: Raising a New Generation of Cheese Lovers With Raclette

Located in Reading, Vermont, Spring Brook Farm has been making delicious raw milk Alpine style cheeses since 2008. That cheese is a natural extension of their primary mission: a self-sustaining non-profit outdoor agrarian classroom for schoolchildren from urban backgrounds.

January 2023 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

January 2023 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

Our first cheese club shipment of 2023 features three cheeses particularly rooted in European cheesemaking traditions, but could only have been made in America.

Ploughgate Creamery's Cultured Butter Starts a New Chapter

Ploughgate Creamery's Cultured Butter Starts a New Chapter

A young, intrepid cheesemaker named Marisa Mauro churns some of the country's best butter. Here's what comes next.

December 2022 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

December 2022 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

The December shipment of our monthly cheese club features a beer-washed wheel, a square-shaped bloomy rind goat cheese, and a grass-fed taste of Appalachia. Read on to learn about this month's selections and sign up to have this month's club shipped straight to your door!

Sustainable Cheese—and Cheesemaking—on the von Trapp Farmstead

Sustainable Cheese—and Cheesemaking—on the von Trapp Farmstead

Sebastian von Trapp is the third generation to tend the land on this Vermont farmstead, and the first to turn to cheesemaking as a way to preserve a family legacy.

November 2022 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

November 2022 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

The November shipment of our monthly cheese club features three beloved cheeses made in three very different ways. Read on to learn about this month's selections and sign up to have this month's club shipped straight to your door!

Old Chatham Creamery: Shepherd of New York

Old Chatham Creamery: Shepherd of New York

In the world of American cheesemaking, sheep milk is a rarity. But Old Chatham Creamery isn't just surviving as a sheep milk dairy; it's thriving.

How to Pair Cheese and Cider

How to Pair Cheese and Cider

Sure you've heard of pairing cheese with wine, but have you tried pairing with cider? Here in the United States we're in a golden age of cidermaking, which is just winemaking by another name. In some cider producing parts of Europe that double as notable cheesemaking regions, cider and cheese are thick as thieves.

What is an Alpine style Cheese?

What is an Alpine style Cheese?

Alpine cheese refers to any cheese that is made using methods similar to those made in the Alps. Think of the "Swiss" cheeses: Gruyere, Emmenthale...

October 2022 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

October 2022 Cheese of the Month Club Selections

The October shipment of our monthly cheese club is all about big flavors from big families. All three cheeses come from family-owned creameries, including the famous Von Trapp homestead and one run by 14 (count 'em) siblings! Read on to learn about this month's selections and sign up to have this month's club shipped straight to your door!

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