{ Janet Fletcher / Food Writer }
photo: Valerie Tobias Photography for American Cheese Society
I’ve been waiting years for American distributors to figure out how to import Canadian cheeses. The hurdles are many and hard to grasp, especially given that Vermont (dairy state) and Quebec (dairy province) share a border. It should be so easy, so unremarkable. Allies trade with each other. And very recently it was starting to happen.
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If you want to show Canada some love right now, seek out this award-winning Canadian Cheddar. I was surprised to find it at a local shop recently; we get so few cheeses of any type from our northern neighbor.
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The Canada-bashing coming from the White House lately will do nothing to help achieve my goal for U.S.-Canada relations. I want to see more Canadian cheese in the U.S., not less, and the heated rhetoric has me worried. I felt bad about the name-calling from our side, so I picked up a pound of aged Canadian Cheddar, just as a one-woman show of support.
Read moreThe crunchy heirloom apples at the farmers’ market last week put me in the mood for a piece of Cheddar, and I found a superb one. From Canada, of all places. We receive so few cheeses from our northern neighbor that I’m always drawn to the ones I do find. The other feature that lured me was the age. When was the last time you had a 7-year-old cheese?
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