Alexandra Jones for culture: the word on cheese https://culturecheesemag.com Culture, America's magazine for cheese lovers, delivers stories about cheeses, cheesemakers, travel to gorgeous cheese regions, and practical tips on buying, presenting, and cooking with cheese. Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:40:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://culturecheesemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cropped-Culture-Logo-32x32.jpg Alexandra Jones for culture: the word on cheese https://culturecheesemag.com 32 32 Tariff Turmoil: Why America’s Trade Policy Rocked the Global Cheese Industry https://culturecheesemag.com/stories/american-trump-tariffs-cheese-industry-switzerland/ https://culturecheesemag.com/stories/american-trump-tariffs-cheese-industry-switzerland/#respond Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:57:00 +0000 https://culturecheesemag.com/?p=50416 For the specialty cheese industry, “Liberation Day” was anything but liberating. On April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order implementing a broad set of new tariffs, or taxes on products imported from other countries, dubbing the occasion “Liberation Day” in recognition of what he called the United States’ “declaration of economic independence.” The order announced unprecedented tariffs of 10 to 50 percent across a broad range of trading partners, including the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland—key suppliers of cheese to the US.

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]]> https://culturecheesemag.com/stories/american-trump-tariffs-cheese-industry-switzerland/feed/ 0 Have It Her Way: The Precise-Yet-Playful Cheeseburger at Philadelphia’s Roxanne https://culturecheesemag.com/recipes/chefs/roxanne-philadelphia-cheeseburger/ https://culturecheesemag.com/recipes/chefs/roxanne-philadelphia-cheeseburger/#respond Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:16:44 +0000 https://culturecheesemag.com/?p=49843 At Alexandra Holt’s utterly singular restaurant, save room for a thoughtfully composed cheeseburger—on the dessert menu If you’re craving something sweet to end your meal, Holt’s unconventional dessert cheeseburger is accompanied by an ice cream sundae. Photographed by Paul Bartholomew. Alexandra Holt is known for doing things her way. After burning out on toxic masculinity […]

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]]> https://culturecheesemag.com/recipes/chefs/roxanne-philadelphia-cheeseburger/feed/ 0 Mountain Cotija: Mexico’s Endangered Heritage Cheese Faces an Uncertain Future https://culturecheesemag.com/stories/mountain-cotija-mexican-cheese/ https://culturecheesemag.com/stories/mountain-cotija-mexican-cheese/#respond Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:32:49 +0000 https://culturecheesemag.com/?p=49573 As the future of Mexico’s only aged cheese becomes increasingly uncertain, producers, advocates, and researchers seek to preserve its flavor and history. Mountain Cotija’s character and production is defined by the the Sierra Jalmich region’s landscape. Mountain cotija is aged for at least three months. There’s a cheese made high in the mountains, where cows […]

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]]> https://culturecheesemag.com/stories/mountain-cotija-mexican-cheese/feed/ 0 Tradition, Collaboration, Love: How Comté Cheese Unites https://culturecheesemag.com/travel/comte-cheese/ https://culturecheesemag.com/travel/comte-cheese/#respond Fri, 31 Jan 2025 05:59:24 +0000 https://culturecheesemag.com/?p=48948 In France’s Jura Massif, thousands of farmers, hundreds of creameries, and more than a dozen affinage houses work together to protect the land, their culture, and their livelihoods through cheese. The day’s first batch of Comté at Fruitière du Valromey, a state-of-the-art creamery near the southern tip of France’s Jura Mountains, is almost ready to […]

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]]> https://culturecheesemag.com/travel/comte-cheese/feed/ 0 culture’s 2025 Annual List of the Best Award-winning Cheeses https://culturecheesemag.com/awards/best-cheese-2025/ https://culturecheesemag.com/awards/best-cheese-2025/#respond Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:46:01 +0000 https://culturecheesemag.com/?p=48722 At culture, we eat a lot of cheese—funky cheeses, flavored cheeses, ones with bloomy rinds and ones sans rinds, cheeses made of several animal milks, cheeses made from plants, so on. We also attend national and international competitions each year alongside makers and folks in the biz so that we can add award-winning cheeses to […]

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]]> https://culturecheesemag.com/awards/best-cheese-2025/feed/ 0 The Best Cheeses of 2023 https://culturecheesemag.com/blog/best-of-cheeses-2023/ https://culturecheesemag.com/blog/best-of-cheeses-2023/#respond Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:42:11 +0000 https://culturecheesemag.com/?p=46892 Featuring over 60 award-winners from across the globe.

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]]> https://culturecheesemag.com/blog/best-of-cheeses-2023/feed/ 0 Making Cheese in Appalachia: Firefly Farms Reflects on a 20-Year Journey https://culturecheesemag.com/stories/cheesemaker-profile/firefly-farms/ https://culturecheesemag.com/stories/cheesemaker-profile/firefly-farms/#respond Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:24:20 +0000 https://culturecheesemag.com/?p=46613 For founders Mike Koch and Pablo Solanet, building a cheese business in western Maryland has always been about the journey, not the destination

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]]> https://culturecheesemag.com/stories/cheesemaker-profile/firefly-farms/feed/ 0 Chef’s Dish: At Mish Mish, Fried Armenian String Cheese Sets the Fun, Casual Vibe https://culturecheesemag.com/recipes/chefs/chefs-dish-at-mish-mish-fried-armenian-string-cheese-sets-the-fun-casual-vibe/ https://culturecheesemag.com/recipes/chefs/chefs-dish-at-mish-mish-fried-armenian-string-cheese-sets-the-fun-casual-vibe/#respond Wed, 10 May 2023 12:44:44 +0000 https://culturecheesemag.com/?p=45673 The fried Armenian string cheese has become one of the most popular dishes on Mish Mish’s menu, a flagship small plate that sums up Tewfik’s vision: easy, simple, fun. 

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]]> https://culturecheesemag.com/recipes/chefs/chefs-dish-at-mish-mish-fried-armenian-string-cheese-sets-the-fun-casual-vibe/feed/ 0 Breeding Better Cheese https://culturecheesemag.com/stories/breeding-better-cheese/ https://culturecheesemag.com/stories/breeding-better-cheese/#respond Wed, 15 Mar 2023 18:26:11 +0000 https://culturecheesemag.com/?p=45641 Enterprising dairies blend the latest tech and age-old practices to raise healthier animals, strengthen farms, and produce top-quality milk

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]]> https://culturecheesemag.com/stories/breeding-better-cheese/feed/ 0 Best Cheeses 2022: Sheep’s Milk https://culturecheesemag.com/stories/best-cheeses-2022-sheeps-milk/ https://culturecheesemag.com/stories/best-cheeses-2022-sheeps-milk/#respond Mon, 12 Dec 2022 21:13:36 +0000 https://culturecheesemag.com/?p=45117 Photo by Nina Gallant | Styled by Kendra Smith CROZIER BLUE (pictured above)J&L Grubb Ltd. / Cashel Blue | Fethard, Ireland This rich, sweet wheel gets its name from St. Patrick’s Crozier, a silver relic in the shape of a shepherd’s crook said to be carried by the saint—a fitting name for a sheep’s milk […]

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