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{ Janet Fletcher / Food Writer }

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A Star is Born

November 13, 2023 janet@janetfletcher.com
Firefly Farm's Carpenter's Wheel

If you are looking for an exceptional American cheese for your Thanksgiving festivities, or for a host gift, you won’t be disappointed by this beauty. It’s a recent release with a long origin story and absolutely worth the wait. A collaboration between the Maryland creamery that produced it and the New York affinage team that nurtured it from infancy to its prime, this aromatic goat cheese seduced me at the first sniff. I’m hoping that affinage—expert cheese aging—will become more of a thing in this country, as it is in Europe, and that success stories like this one will pave the way.

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In From: U.S., Milk: Goat Tags goat cheese, aged goat cheese, affinage, Murray’s, Firefly Farms, Southern cheese
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Tiny Cheese, Giant Buzz

October 11, 2016 janet@janetfletcher.com
St-Alban

“I don’t know if we’ve ever introduced a new cheese that has had this much instant acclaim,” said Vermont Creamery owner Allison Hooper about the recent debut of St. Albans. “We didn’t anticipate it.”

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In From: U.S., Milk: Cow Tags St. Albans, Allison Hooper, Vermont Creamery, Vermont cheese, Murray’s, St. Marcellin
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