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Tasting Notes: 5 Spoke Creamery Tumbleweed

Earlier this week, I was at Fairway in Red Hook, browsing, of course for a new cheese to try despite a crisper drawer full of still-wrapped cheesy offerings. In particular, I was looking for a great cheddar, to make a great grilled cheese sandwich — a pleasure I would trade for pretty much any other [...]
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Tasting Notes: Cowgirl Creamery Red Hawk

Cowgirl Creamery’s cute Red Hawk out of Point Reyes Station, California is a tidy little triple creme wheel of decadence. I like to think of this beauty as perhaps a gateway cheese to those of the stinkier variety — it’s washed with brine that develops the rind into a tacky, thick, pasty orange rind and [...]
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Tasting Notes: Cypress Grove’s Lamb Chopper

So I’m reading (and tasting) my way through Liz Thorpe’s The Cheese Chronicles — an awesome book from the VP of Murray’s Cheese about the American cheese industry, and an awesome Christmas gift from my good friend Lauren. I was never oblivious to the fact that Americans produce some pretty interesting cheese, but prior to [...]
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The DIY Kitchen: Notes on Ultra-Pasteurized Milk

After a whole bunch of cheese making this weekend, I thought that today’s DIY Kitchen post should detail some notes on the types of milk that are best for this whole process. For recipes on how to make fresh goat cheese or ricotta, check out the recipes page. Ultra-Pasteurized Milk: Confusingly, this milk is also [...]
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The DIY Kitchen: Fresh Goat Cheese

By now, I’m sure you’re all ricotta making experts, so it’s time to graduate to something just a teensy bit more difficult: goat cheese. The hardest part of making goat cheese really is tracking down goat’s milk. This side of the river, I’ve spotted it The Brooklyn Kitchen Labs in Williamsburg and Brooklyn Fare at Hoyt [...]
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Ricotta Making With Salvatore Bklyn

Last week I had the pleasure, courtesy an awesome birthday gift, of attending one of Salvatore Bklyn’s ricotta making workshops at the incredible Brooklyn Kitchen Labs in Williamsburg. By now a seasoned ricotta maker, I was ready to learn some secrets from the pros and (hopefully) achieve a ricotta as smooth, creamy, and down right [...]
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Weekend Report: The Best Things We Ate and Drank

The Best Thing We Ate: Appenzeller Cheese from The Bedford Cheese Shop I’m sure I’ve confessed this on these pages before, but my name is Kristen and I am a cheese-a-holic. Lucky for me, I live in a borough with such a fine selection of cheeses. While Green Grape Provisions in Fort Greene has quickly [...]
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