Enjoy luxury in Edinburgh with cocktail & cheese pairing experience
Pickering’s Gin now offer three completely different styled gin tours, with a newly launched Cocktail and Cheese Pairing Experience. Visitors will enjoy a two-hour luxury experience above the distillery in the company’s boardroom, where they will create three classic styled gin cocktails paired with a selection of the finest...
Cartwheel Creamery takes out NZ Champion of Cheese Awards
Supplied Adrian Walcroft has been crowned the cheese making champion of the country. He runs the Cartwheel Creamery with wife Jill. (file photo) A well-loved boutique Manawatū cheesemaker took out three trophies at the annual New Zealand Champion of Cheese Awards in Hamilton last night. The Pohangina Valley-based cheesemaker...
Parmesan Is the Most Controversial Cheese. Here’s Why
Ask about Parmesan cheese and you’ll likely get a range of answers depending on who you ask and where you are when you ask them. That salty packet of Parmesan powder that accompanies your favorite meal kit or holds court on the counter of your local pizza parlor may...
Pinot noir pairing with cheese is about the terroir
Cheese – paired with fine French pinot noir – also helped inspire another winemaker, Liam Van Pelt, when he started working at the revered high-altitude Adelaide Hills vineyard, Ashton Hills, in 2019. Ashton Hills had been established in the early 1980s by Stephen George. In 2015, he sold to...
An international battle over cheese has left European producers feeling bitter
For most cheese lovers, taste is the thing. Whether it’s a tangy blue stilton or a creamy oozing camembert, the most important element is the eating. But cheese has profound political and economic properties too, with implications for international trade deals and commerce. The taste of gruyere, for example,...
Court says US-made cheese can be called ‘gruyere’ too
NEW YORK – A US appeals court ruled that in America the word “gruyere” is a common label for cheese and cannot be reserved just for the kind made originally in France or Switzerland. The United States does not have the same strict rules as Europe on the designation of...
US-made cheese can also be called ‘gruyere’, court rules
There have been controversies on whether cheese from outside Europe can still be called ‘gruyere.’ Photo: 123rf The name “gruyere” can now be used to label cheeses from outside of the Gruyère region of Switzerland and France, a US appeals court has ruled. The Virginia court upheld a ruling...
31 Types of Cheese To Add to Your Next Charcuterie Board
Cheese and thank you—our grocery list is officially inspired. There was talk in late 2022 that butter boards were the new cheese plates. It was heresy. Cheese plates and charcuterie boards filled with an assortment of different types of cheese remain party staples. And, not to be cheesy, it’s more...