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Cheese
List of great cheeses!
Cheese List
Misc
French Cheeses
Fundamentals:
Specialties
Hard Cheese
More Background on Cheese
Cheese List
Misc
Tags:, good, Moosbacher, Austrian, Baby, Swiss
Holey Cow (from Staff of Life in Santa Cruz)
Special Provolone (from Staff of Life in Santa Cruz)
Vacherin
Cherime Vadure
List of Supermarket Vegan Cheese
French Cheeses
(From French Cheese cognoscente friend)
Fundamentals:
- camembert - a bitter, creamy cheese, the fav of french people
- brie - the less bitter variant of camembert, usually loved by new cheese fans (althought camembert is where the real deal is)
- coutançais - my sister in law favorite. Very hard to get in US, because it melts quite fast when transported and cannot be frozen. It’s like dessert. Can be called triple creme in some regions.
Specialties
- roquefort - a crumbly blue cheese. Victoria’s favorite. Very good to put in a salad. Can be used as an anti inflammatory (the “blue” comes from a penicilin bacteria variant)
- raclette - very few eats raclette as is in France. We melt it on potatoes or meat during winter time. People are looking forward the “raclette season” as Americans are looking for 4th of July bbq.
Hard Cheese
- (easy to import b/c they are baked, hence duties allow importations)
- emmental: the most basic cheese of all. Kind of the french Gouda. We used it as is, or for a gratin, in pasta
- comté - the noble variant version of emmental. Flavorful, its taste and color vary greatly depending on the season, will be rich and taste like flowers in summer, and will taste like nuts and grass in winter. It changes based on what the cows eat ;).
More Background on Cheese
(Notes from French Cheese cognoscente friend)
The bad news?
The best European cheeses cannot be imported. Its a mix of European farmers cannot and dont want to scale operations anyway, so not enough products to try to export, but also a mix of protectionists and dumb US laws that forbid importing non pasteurized cheese.
Pasteurized cheese for French specialities do not make sense, because cheese is a controlled mold after all!
In US, the milk which contain antibiotics needs to be pasteurized/boiled first, killing all bacterias including mold. Then a new substitute for the natural mold that would have been cultivated is added to the organically dead milk biome. That changes the flavor and some cheese cannot be made that way.
It is based on the lack of knowledge that cheese mold will kill most of the bacteria dangerous for humans and also give a very long shelf life to the result - that’s why we made cheese in the first place!!
Cheese Pairings
I think “cheese pairings” are a great way we can explore the state-space of qualia at our fingertips, and how two things can combine to make something uniquely better. The list below is crowd-sourced from reddit, but add your own!
Gouda
Anjou Pairs
Gorgonzola
Pears
Brie or Camembert
Fig Jam
Very Sharp cheese
Honey or strawberry jam
Apple cheddar pie is a thing!