Even knowing how it ends, “The Big Cheese” was a nail biter. I saw this quirky documentary about a cheese competition a few months ago in Napa Valley, an early theater screening for a fundraiser. Now it’s available for rent (on Apple TV, Google Play and Amazon), which means you can watch it the right way: with a glass of wine, a cheese board and friends.
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First at last! Almost 50 years after American vintners upended the wine world by beating the French, an American cheesemonger has done the same, topping the podium at the recent Mondial du Fromage, a biannual competition informally known as the Cheese Olympics. And the story gets better.
Read moreU.S. Cheesemongers Vie for World Champion
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Will an American be the next World Champion Cheesemonger? It could happen, although it never has. But this year is different. This year, a small army is working mightily to clinch the title for Team U.S.A. The U.S. has two entrants—Courtney Johnson from the Seattle area and Sam Rollins from Portland, Oregon—who will be competing against each other and against 14 mongers from other nations at the biannual contest in France in September.
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