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{ Janet Fletcher / Food Writer }

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Hauntingly Good

September 17, 2024 janet@janetfletcher.com
Old Witch Swiss Cheese

When I lose cheeses in the back of my fridge, they rarely emerge the better for it. Once or twice, I’ve unintentionally improved an uncut wheel by forgetting I had it, but I generally prefer to leave the aging to the experts. Even they can be surprised by what happens. The Swiss cheese pictured above was a happy accident. Wheels misplaced in the creamery’s cellar and discovered months later had evolved in spectacular fashion. The cheese didn’t get dryer, as one would have expected. It got creamier.

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In From: Switzerland, Milk: Cow Tags Red Witch, Old Witch, Swiss cheese, raw milk cheese
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Top-Value Cheeses for Tight Times

May 24, 2022 janet@janetfletcher.com
Cheese board with great-value cheeses

Left to right: Piave Vecchio, Taleggio, La Dama Sagrada, Point Reyes Toma, Bleu d’Auvergne

Seems like everything’s going up but the stock market. My neighborhood bakery just hiked the price of my favorite loaf by 33 percent. Ouch. That’s serious inflation. Cheese is hardly immune, and the stresses in the grain market guarantee more sticker shock to come. We cheese lovers just have to shop smarter. The values are out there. I’ve rounded up a few well-priced favorites for these inflationary times. There aren’t many cheeses that make me think “Is that all?” when I see what I’ve spent, but these dozen do.

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In Milk: Cow, Milk: Goat, Milk: Sheep Tags inflation, cheese prices, Trader Joe’s, feta, Beecher’s Flagship, Bleu d’Auvergne, Fourme d’Ambert, Bleu 1924, Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese, Point Reyes Original Blue, Caña de Cabra, Caña de Oveja, La Dama Sagrada, Matos St. George, Piave, Red Witch, Roth Grand Cru, Taleggio, Vella Dry Jack, Vella Mezzo Secco
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Cheese for the Witching Hour

October 12, 2021 janet@janetfletcher.com
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We have so few trick-or-treaters on my quiet street. We fill a bowl with candy and we’re lucky if the doorbell rings twice. This year, I’ll be waiting for the little gremlins and goblins while enjoying my own candy: a fat slice of Red Witch and a bottle of Dead Guy. This Swiss raw-milk cheese may sound like a gimmick, but it’s made by a master and it’s hauntingly good.

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In From: Switzerland, Milk: Cow Tags Red Witch, Swiss cheese, raw-milk cheese, Rogue Ales, Rogue Dead Guy
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