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{ Janet Fletcher / Food Writer }

{ Janet Fletcher / Food Writer }

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Cheese for the Win

June 11, 2020 janet@janetfletcher.com
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Everyone I talk to seems at loose ends right now. What’s the right thing to think, say, feel, do when your country is experiencing an emotional earthquake? Cheese seems trivial, perhaps, but to dairy farmers and cheesemakers it is not. It’s a livelihood. It’s the future for their land, their livestock, their families.

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In From: U.S. Tags Victory Cheese, World Central Kitchen, igourmet, Beehive Cheese, Jasper Hill Farm, FireFly Farm, Tulip Tree Creamery, Haystack Mountain Cheese, Valley Ford Cheese, Spring Brook Farm, Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese, Central Coast Creamery, Vella Cheese Company, Shepherd’s Way Farms, LaClare Family Farm, Shooting Star Creamery, Milton Creamery, Goat Lady Dairy, Sweet Grass Dairy, Capriole Goat Cheese, Meadow Creek Dairy, 5 Spoke Creamery, Cascadia Creamery, Marieke Gouda, Grafton Village, Face Rock Creamery, Pennyroyal Farm, Maytag Blue, Nicasio Valley Cheese
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Iowa's a Blue State Again

November 21, 2017 janet@janetfletcher.com
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Welcome back, Maytag Blue. We’ve missed you. Just in time for holiday cheese boards, this beloved Iowa product has returned to shops. It has been almost two years since Maytag Dairy Farms suspended production, in the aftermath of a positive test for Listeria in two lots of cheese. (No related illnesses were ever reported.) The road back has been longer and costlier than the owners imagined, but they managed to find a silver lining in this traumatic experience.

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In Milk: Cow, From: U.S. Tags Maytag Dairy Farms, Maytag Blue, Iowa, Iowa cheese, Iowa State University
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Cheese for the People

October 31, 2017 janet@janetfletcher.com
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Courtesy of the Cheese Board Collective

Chez Panisse may be the superstar of Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto, but The Cheese Board was there first. Fifty years ago, a young couple opened a tiny shop in an alleyway in North Berkeley, stocking it with cheeses they selected by paging through a distributor’s catalog. The first day’s gross was $95. “You’re going to make it,” predicted an initially skeptical Alfred Peet, whose Peet’s Coffee was next door.

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Tags Cheese Board, Berkeley, Gourmet Ghetto, Peet’s Coffee, food cooperative, Maytag Blue, Vella Dry Jack, Redwood Hill, Matos St. George, Fromager d’Affinois, Prima Donna, Prairie Breeze, Gouda
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