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Rites of Spring
For cheesemongers, spring not only means longer days and warm weather, but also the start of a new season of cheesemaking. Some of the first spring-milk cheeses we see are from goat farms, which have...
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Cheese, Beer + BBQ: A Memorable Day at the Vermont Cheesemakers Festival
The call time was 6 a.m., but our first guests — just as excited as we were — were standing outside our door at 5:40. Gradually, the rest of our sleepy customers arrived, picked up their coffee and...
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Made in the USA: Cheeses to Celebrate Independence Day
Lake’s Edge – Blue Ledge Farm Celebrate Independence Day with a cheese plate that is “Made in the USA!” Tripp, domestic cheese buyer in our Cambridge shop, is recommending four cheeses for this July...
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Celebrating Thanksgiving with an All-American Cheese Board
We love Thanksgiving. It may mean a variety of things to a variety of people but there are many common threads – turkey, family, friends, cranberries, football, a full stomach and, in many cases, an...
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Introducing Tripp: Cheesemonger, Teacher, Grillmaster and Domestic Cheese Buyer!
Many of you may know Tripp as the jolly presence behind our BBQ grill this past summer. Others may be familiar with his stellar work on the cheese counter and in developing our domestic cheese...
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A Trip Up North: The Vermont Cheesemakers Festival
It was the perfect day yesterday at Shelburne Farms for the 5th annual Vermont Cheesemakers Festival. Forty plus cheesemakers from around the state of Vermont, as well as a few from New Hampshire and...
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A Cheese Trip to Vermont: Consider Bardwell, Blue Ledge + Twig Farm
Consider Bardwell Farm Four years ago, when I first moved from New York to the Boston-area, I can only describe it as a collision of worlds. Although the change of pace is less noticeable for some, it...
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A Summer Tasting of Vermont’s Outstanding Artisan Cheese
Dizzy feasts on buttercups A cow named Dizzy munches on buttercups, a goat named Isabelle ruminates under the shade of an old oak tree; in Vermont, the rolling green pastures are shadowed only by the...
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A Visit to Twig Farm
Goats are sensitive, fickle creatures and often don’t like to eat or give milk if it’s rainy or too hot.Michael Lee strides into the thick, overgrown land behind his house, looking for the shady spot...
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A Trip Up North: The Vermont Cheesemakers Festival
5th Annual Vermont Cheesemakers FestivalIt was the perfect day yesterday at Shelburne Farms for the 5th annual Vermont Cheesemakers Festival. Forty plus cheesemakers from around the state of Vermont,...
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A Cheese Trip to Vermont: Consider Bardwell, Blue Ledge + Twig Farm
Consider Bardwell FarmFour years ago, when I first moved from New York to the Boston-area, I can only describe it as a collision of worlds. Although the change of pace is less noticeable for some, it...
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