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The Cheeses You Loved

December 23, 2024 janet@janetfletcher.com

By now the critics have spoken. We know the year’s best movies, books, albums and restaurants. But who will speak for the cheese? I shared my own favorite tastes from the past 12 months in last week’s post. This week, some of the nation’s top mongers weigh in. These front-line folks are going to tell us what their customers flipped over. I also asked them what cheeses in their shop deserve more love than they got. Sometimes even a fabulous cheese fails to find an audience.

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Tags Stony Pond Farm, Swallow Tail Tomme, Culpeper Cheese Company, Paste & Rind, Withersbrook Blue, Jasper Hill Farm, Tomme aux Fleurs, Beecher’s Flagship, Moser Screamer, Bufarolo, Cheese Parlor, Venissimo, Lady & Larder
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Breakout Stars of 2022

December 13, 2022 janet@janetfletcher.com
Planet Cheese - Queen Anne's Lace

Which cheeses broke away from the pack at retail counters this year? I asked a few of the nation’s influential mongers what generated the most buzz in their store, and to guess—if they could—why those cheeses resonated. Some of their choices are newbies, some are classics, and a few I haven’t yet tried. If you want a cheese “bucket list” for 2023, this could be it. How fun, after the long pandemic standstill, to have some new cheeses to try.

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Tags Lady & Larder, Jasper Hill Farm, Tulip Tree Creamery, Finca Pascualete, Melinda Mae, Mystic Cheese, Wrångebäck, L’Etivaz, Sweet Grass Dairy, Morbier, 4 Alarm Cheddar
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