Savor Culture

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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I was in a continental mood as we perused the impressive cheese selection at Formaggio Kitchen last week. Wonderful Husband Charles and I were in the Boston area for a quick getaway, and he’d been informed that the not-to-be-missed spot on my agenda was the venerable cheese purveyor in Cambridge, MA. Formaggio Kitchen [...]

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For the inaugural edition of the international blogging event, La Fête du Fromage, I selected an American artisan cheese that pays homage to French cheesemaking tradition.  Bourrée* is one of three varieties of farmstead, raw cow’s milk cheese produced by Dancing Cow Farm in Vermont.  Run by the Getz family, the farm is an organic, closed-loop [...]

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Artisan cheese is the weekly focus of La Fète du Fromage on Chez Loulou.  
Photo courtesy of Chez Loulou.

 
My favorite weekly event in all of blogosphere is La Fète du Fromage on Chez Loulou.  One at a time, Loulou introduces her readers to the mind-boggling array of artisan cheese produced in her adopted home [...]

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