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Karen Groves

Spanish cheese not very motivating

So, I’ve been in Spain for about 6 months now and I’m just not finding any cheese worth writing about. Manchego seems to be about the best cheese produced here. I’m off to France in a couple of weeks… perhaps there.  Send me suggestions!

How lazy I am!

Good lord! Is it really an entire YEAR since I last wrote about cheese? It is! Well, I want to weakly say that my excuse is that I’ve moved to a different country, I didn’t have a decent camera, etc., but, no excuse. I am currently in Spain for 5 months where the cheese is, [...]

Cougar Gold (Cheese from a can?)

UPDATE (Dec 2012) I was just doing a little bit of research about this cheese, and, um, it was from a can??? (see links below: ).  The cheese I tasted at that party last year was not in a can, but I suppose it COULD have been at some point?  It’s made at Washington State University, and I [...]

Toscano with black pepper

This cheese is awesome! Sharp, salty firm cheese from Trader Joe’s .. no idea who makes the cheese or where TJs gets it from but it’s lovely. The flavour reminds me of parmesan in terms of it’s saltiness but it’s creamier and not as hard as parmesan. Afew casein crystals sprinkled here and there ..always [...]