Cheese

11/10  Saturday 3-7 Pedrozo Dairy and Cheese Co.  from Orland (near Chico)  sampling their Northern Gold and their limited and seasonal Black Butte.  Grass-fed cows!  11/17 Saturday 11-3  Bravo Farms  from Visalia  sampling their Silver Mountain traditional cheddar and their Sage and Chipotle cheddars. Also (no cheesemakers but plenty of samples!) 11/18  Sunday 12-6 Beemster Dutch Goudas: Classic, Vlaskaas, and XO extra-aged.  Come on in and ask all those questions you’ve always wanted to ask and eat cheese samples. These events are confirmed but stuff happens sometimes.  If you really are coming in to the store just to meet the cheesemakers, please call to confirm.  

 

  

Ha.  I have gotten out of habit.  I wrote this last week and forgot to post it!

The biggest cheese news right now is that the Rogue River Blue is back!  Theis is a seasonally-produced raw milk blue from the folks at Rogue Creamery. Wrapped in wine-soaked leaves, this is one of the best blues in the country.  Fruity, slightly boozey, creamy, rich, pungent, and strong.   If you haven’t tried this, it is an incredibly complex and memorable cheeses.  You know what, it’s not just one of the best blues in the country, it’s one of the best cheeses period.   I even served it at my 40th birthday party.

 

We have enough for a month or two.  It’s expensive, but a great holiday treat.

-gordon

Welcome back everyone!

  We finally got this blog back up and running at its real home.* There is a feed (look over to your right!). Syndicate this to your favorite aggregate page if you want to not miss a word.  Starting soon, we’ll tell you about all the amazing cheese we’ve gotten in in the last couple of months!   For today, I’ll start off with  just a little announcement:

*A lot of folks are confused when they see “.coop”. It is a top level domain available only to cooperatives.  It’s administered through the National Cooperative Business Association.  If you see a .coop url, you know you are dealing with a real cooperative.

**They don’t really use that slogan.  It’s a Parrano joke.