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Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery wins.

Some new Cavemaster Reserve cheeses for the holidays!

From our 2012/13 Gift Guide: American Idyll

GET IT? Our mongers say: If the proof is in the pudding (here pudding = cheese, duh), a taste of this selection will show anyone that American cheesemaking has come into its own.

This stuff makes us feel patriotic:

• DELICATE Vermont Butter & Cheese Cremont
• BUTTERY Champlain Valley Triple Cream
• FUNKY Meadow Creek Grayson
• TANGY Milton Creamery Prairie Breeze Cheddar
• LICORICE-Y (for real!) Jasper Hill Bayley Hazen Blue
• HEARTY Urban Oven Olive Oil Crackers

woahohradios:

Oh, oh my. You are beautiful. #cheese #jasperhill #harbison #turophile

dreamy!

(Source: duhskis)

American Cheese Month cheese of the day: Jasper Hill Moses Sleeper

Milky, luscious, prone to running across the plate.

Moses Sleeper is named for a Revolutionary War-era scout. He was cut down with his comrade Constant Bliss along Bayley Hazen Road in 1781.

Moses Sleeper, we salute you!

American Cheese Month cheese of the day: Jasper Hill’s Bayley Hazen Blue. Such a stunning cheese.

Raw milk from Ayrshire cows in Vermont makes for a delectably fudgy, dense paste. Blue mold is speckled throughout and imparts a gorgeous spicy quality that reminds us of licorice.

A perfect fall cheese because it is awesome with: pears, figs, apples, bread with fruit in it, and sweet dessert wines.

cheesenotes:

Just in time for American Cheese Month, Martha Stewart’s “American Made Awards” honor the Kehler brothers for their work at The Cellars at Jasper Hill:

Andy and Mateo Kehler have gone underground. After apprenticing with several local and international farmstead cheesemakers and…

YEAHHHHH way to go Jasper Hill!