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sevenwood-abita

 

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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