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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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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