Savor Culture

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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    Who’s ready for a crowd pleaser?

 
Taylor Farm of Londonderry, VT, offers a focused portfolio of cheese: look to this producer when you’re in the mood for gouda.  Full-flavored, farmstead, raw milk gouda, that is.  The farm is owned by Kate and Jon Wright, who in 1999 began producing cheese from the milk of [...]

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Alderbrook is silky-smooth and perfect with summer fruit.
This is Alderbrook, a soft-ripened, sheep’s milk cheese produced by Willow Hill Farm in Milton, Vermont.  While we didn’t meet the cheesemaker, Willow Smart, during our recent Vermont road trip, we did see the farm’s happy flock and the new cheese house.  Ms. Smart writes a blog, Willow Hill Farm [...]

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Front and back views of the violin made by Charles.
I feel compelled to brag.  My wonderful husband has an informal apprenticeship at his father’s violin shop in Brattleboro, VT.  Today, Charles applied the final coat of varnish to his first violin.  It must dry for several weeks before he completes the instrument by adding the [...]

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Buffalo milk yogurt is back!  We found it at co-ops in Burlington and Brattleboro, VT, during our recent road trip, and at Whole Foods Market in Hadley, MA.
Formerly Vermont Water Buffalo, the producer is now called Bufala di Vermont.  Their website is under construction at this time.  Read about the yogurt and the company’s change [...]

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