Win an English Holiday Cheeseboard from Clawson Farms

Culture Cheese — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:53:09 +0000

Celebrate the season with a prize rooted in British tradition. We’ve partnered with Clawson Farms—a farmer-owned cooperative crafting award-winning cheese since 1912—to give TWO lucky winners a festive English Holiday Cheeseboard loaded with heritage, flavor, and plenty of holiday sparkle. Clawson Farms has spent more than a century honing its craft in the village of […]

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Win the “Ode to Sonoma” Gift Set from Gold Ridge Organic Farms

Culture Cheese — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 19:03:44 +0000

Bring the flavors of Sonoma straight to your kitchen with this luxurious gift set from Gold Ridge Organic Farms. Perfect for olive oil lovers, home chefs, or anyone craving a taste of California’s bounty. Gold Ridge Organic Farms is located in the rolling hills of Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California, where 88 acres of apples, olives, […]

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The Perfect Cheese Board: Elevating Cheese with Unique Confits, Honeys, and Gourmet Cutlery from The French Farm

Josie Krogh — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:17:37 +0000

Creating a cheese board is an artful blend of flavors, textures, and aesthetics that allows cheese to shine as the centerpiece. At The French Farm, we believe that while cheese is the undisputed queen of any board, it’s the supporting flavors that make it truly memorable. Our carefully curated line of L’Epicurien Confits for Cheese […]

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Baked Pumpkin Feta Pasta

Josie Krogh — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:39:59 +0000

The viral baked feta pasta got a pumpkin makeover! Adding a little pumpkin to your favorite pasta dishes gives them an instant flavor kick. Have this easy pasta dinner on the table in under 45 minutes!

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Discover Prosciutto di Parma: Taste the Tradition

Culture Cheese — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:32:52 +0000

This month, we’re teaming up with Prosciutto di Parma and some of our favorite specialty cheese shops across the country to bring an iconic Italian classic straight to your board. Visit participating stores for complimentary tastings, pairing ideas, and expert tips from your local mongers. What Makes Prosciutto di Parma Special? Prosciutto di Parma isn’t […]

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Win a Rogue River Blue Cheese Haul

Culture Cheese — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:44:54 +0000

Rogue River Blue is the blue cheese that put American cheesemaking on the world stage. Handcrafted by Rogue Creamery in Southern Oregon and wrapped in local grape leaves macerated in pear brandy, this iconic blue is rich, complex, and deeply expressive of the region where it’s made. In 2019, Rogue River Blue became the first […]

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How Vermont Creamery’s Cheeses Go From Mild To Wild

Culture Cheese — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:00:09 +0000

Flavor is a journey … and a spectrum. And pretty unique to each individual cheese in Vermont Creamery’s catalog. While Vermont Creamery’s collection of cow’s milk, goat’s milk, and mixed cow and goats’ milk cheeses may start out clean and lactic like fresh chèvre, they can eventually acquire all kinds of wild and funky flavors […]

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One Hundred Years of Cheese: Celebrating a Century with the Finco Family of Monti Trentini

Josie Krogh — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:15:14 +0000

On Saturday, September 20, 2025, the Finco family and Monti Trentini opened their doors wide—literally and figuratively—to celebrate a remarkable milestone: one hundred years of cheesemaking in the heart of Trentino A Century in Milk and Rind It was in 1925 that the Finco family first began transforming local milk into cheese—a modest operation in […]

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What Makes Cheese Rinds Wrinkly? Vermont Creamery Has The Answer

Culture Cheese — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:01:14 +0000

When it comes to Vermont Creamery’s French farmstead-style cheeses, there’s a fungus among us—and that fungus is the creamery’s flagship organism: Geotrichum candidum. This yeast-like filamentous fungus acts as the stylist of Vermont Creamery’s cheeses, shaping their signature wrinkly rinds and giving them character. But what exactly is Geotrichum candidum? “[Geotrichum candidum]’s on that boundary […]

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More than European Food and Drinks, Savoring Stories

Josie Krogh — Tue, 06 May 2025 12:20:00 +0000

Agricultural products from the European Union (EU) are more than just food and drinks, they are stories shared, heritage passed on through generations. They are collections of flavors, bursting with character that is traceable through history that echoes the origins. Check out the participating retailers section below to see where you can sample some of […]

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