Savor Culture

Spring has swept into Tennessee, bringing generous rainfall and an explosion of flowers and foliage (and allergies).  For this Fête, I want to celebrate some goodies that come from the Southeast.
One of the most prominent producers of artisan cheese in the Southeast is Sweet Grass Dairy in Thomasville, Georgia.  Founding owners Al and Desiree Wehner [...]

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This lovely hunk of goodness is a bloomy-rind, goat’s milk cheese called Gabriel.  Actually, it’s a goat-cow blend, as indicated by the yellow hue of its paste; pure goat’s milk cheese, lacking the carotene present in cow’s milk,  is snowy-white in color.  Gabriel is enriched with enough cow’s cream to bump it up to triple-cream [...]

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I changed my selection for January’s Fête du Fromage based on the preference of my dad for Dutch Double-Cream Gouda.  I figured, if it’s good enough for The Dad, it’s good enough for us!
While many of us are familiar with double- and triple-cream varieties of soft-ripened cheeses, it is more unusual to find examples in other [...]

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Wonderful Husband Charles and I have moved to my old stomping ground in Middle Tennessee. Among the personal and professional reasons was my desire to help in opening the new Nashville location of Trader Joe’s, where I am a crew member. In honor of our opening day this Friday, I would like to [...]

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Our recent trip to Boston included a visit to a revered institution in Cambridge, populated with model specimens from home and abroad.  I speak, of course, of Formaggio Kitchen, one of America’s pioneering purveyors of gourmet foodstuffs.  Now in its thirtieth year, FK offers a bounty of fresh produce, breads and pastries, beverages and wines, tea [...]

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