GOURMET GIVEAWAY: Cabot Creamery Cheddar Cheese

Taste the whole line. Photo courtesy Cabot Cheese. Say cheese! Two winners will definitely be smiling when they find out that they’ve won a Cabot Creamery Cheddar Cheese gift pack filled with cheese and related goodies. With fall in the air, many of us have comfort food on the mind. Boston chef Stephanie Sokolove specializes…
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CINCO DE MAYO: Know Your Mexican Cheeses

Can you name these Mexican cheeses* (photo by Claire Freiermann | The Nibble).   Do you know the difference between queso blanco and queso fresco? Queso de papa and queso quesadilla? Learn the cheeses of Mexico, also known as Hispanic or Latin cheeses. Take a tour of fresh Hispanic cheeses, Hispanic melting cheeses, and aged…
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TIP OF THE DAY: You CAN Have Cheese!

This tip is for lactose-intolerant people who avoid cheese. Even if you are lactose intolerant, you can enjoy cheese—it just needs to be aged cheese. In the cheese-making process, the liquid whey, which contains most of the lactose, is separated from the curd (the solids in the milk—they look like large-curd cottage cheese). Yet there…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Cheese Scraps = Fondue & Omelets

What to do with those bits and slivers of cheese left over from the party cheese board? Don’t wrap them up and stash them away—you’ll forget them and end up tossing them out weeks later. What a sad waste of cheese! Instead, plan some recipes to use them ASAP. Our favorites: Fondue Cheese omelets “Mixed…
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Easy Gorgonzole Dolce Appetizer & How It Differs From Gorgonzola Naturale

[1] Top Gorgozola with fig preserves or fig jam and serve (photo © Bella Chi Cha). [2] Gorgonzola Dolce, mature and oozing, served with fruit-and-nut cracker. Also good: a square of dark chocolate (photos #2, #3, and #4 © Murray’s Cheese). [3] You can pre-prepare the crackers and cheese. [4] Mature Gorgonzola Dolce is spoonable…
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