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{ Janet Fletcher / Food Writer }

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Ultimate Holiday Cheeses

December 3, 2019 janet@janetfletcher.com
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Want to guess which of these beauties was the hands-down favorite in my recent class on holiday cheeses? The top vote-getter didn’t surprise me, although (lovely as it was) I didn’t vote for it. I selected most of these cheeses because they’re only or primarily available now, during the run-up to the holidays; others made the cut because they are party-worthy for other reasons. People expect Cheddar and Stilton on a holiday buffet. Shake things up with one or more of these showstoppers.

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Tags Stilton, Stichelton, triple-cream cheese, Camembert, Landmark Creamery, Rodolph le Meunier, Betty Koster, L’Amuse, Brabander, Black Betty, Schnebelhorn, Swiss cheese, Wisconsin cheese, French cheese, Rush Creek Reserve
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Raw Milk Manifesto

April 12, 2016 janet@janetfletcher.com
Always Raw: (clockwise from top) 5 Spoke Tumbleweed; Meadow Creek Grayson; Matos  St. George; Grafton Village 2-Year Cheddar

Always Raw: (clockwise from top) 5 Spoke Tumbleweed; Meadow Creek Grayson; Matos  St. George; Grafton Village 2-Year Cheddar

Aged cheeses made with raw milk are dwindling in number, in part because FDA scrutiny makes the future uncertain for cheesemakers who choose to work in this traditional way. Even so, some persist. I’ve asked several leading cheesemakers who work exclusively with raw milk to tell us why they bother.

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In From: U.S., Milk: Cow Tags raw milk cheese, FDA and cheese, Raw Milk Cheese Appreciation Day, Pleasant Ridge Reserve, Rush Creek Reserve, Cato Corner Farm, Consider Bardwell, Sweet Home Farm, Grafton Village, Grayson, 5 Spoke Creamery
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So Long, Roquefort? →

August 27, 2014 Douglas Fletcher

Have you heard about all those people getting sick from eating Roquefort, raw-milk Morbier and raw-milk Tomme de Savoie? I haven’t either because it hasn’t happened. And the FDA is going to make sure that it doesn’t.

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Tags Planet Cheese, Janet Fletcher, Roquefort, Morbier, Tomme de Savoie, FDA and cheese, Beillevaire, Uplands Cheese, Rush Creek Reserve
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