cheese

  • Please Stop Serving Your Cheeses on Wooden Boards

    Please Stop Serving Your Cheeses on Wooden Boards

    I enjoy collecting vintage kitchen stuff, including beautiful teak cheese domes and serving boards. They look nice, especially the domes, but they do not smell nice. Not at all. The best cheese is a cheese with an assertive aroma, but while I enjoy the funk immensely in the moment, I generally do not wish to…


  • How to Make Sexy, Gooey Camembert

    How to Make Sexy, Gooey Camembert

    Bloomy cheese is the reason to start cheesemaking. It encompasses the best parts of cheesemaking: You get to watch impossible clouds of fluffy curds condense into adorable wheels of cheese with fabulous patterns, and gaze upon the fuzzy mould as it blooms—mould you put there, yourself, on purpose. And after many weeks of nurturing, lactic…


  • Make Fromage Fort, the Cheese Spread You Make With Scraps

    Make Fromage Fort, the Cheese Spread You Make With Scraps

    There is no such thing as “leftover cheese” but, if you are a cheese collector such as myself, you probably find yourself with little nubs and ends of various dairy treasures. You could keep making increasingly tiny cheese plates, or you could follow in the footsteps of Jacques Pépin and make fromage fort, a cheese…