Cheese Profiles
Complete profiles for every cheese worth knowing. Origin, flavor, storage, pairings, and substitutes.
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What Is Leerdammer Cheese and Why Does It Have Holes?
Leerdammer is a Dutch cow's milk cheese designed to join Gouda mildness with Emmental-style…
What Is Leonora Cheese and How Does Its Creamline Develop?
Leonora is a 40-day Spanish soft-ripened goat cheese with a lemony center and mushroomy…
What Is Leyden Cheese and Why Does It Contain Cumin?
Leyden is a Dutch cow's milk cheese defined by cumin, a firm body, and…
What Is Lincolnshire Poacher Cheese and How Is It Made?
Lincolnshire Poacher blends Cheddar and Alpine methods using raw farm milk. Learn how curd…
What Is Liptauer Cheese and What Does It Taste Like?
Liptauer is a paprika-spiced Central European cheese spread. Learn the traditional sheep-cheese base, modern…
What Is Majorero Cheese and How Do You Recognize It?
Majorero is Fuerteventura's PDO goat cheese. Learn its Majorera goat milk rules, palm-mold rind,…
What Is Manteca Cheese and Why Is There Butter Inside?
Manteca is a southern Italian stretched-curd cheese wrapped around a core of butter. Learn…
What Is Marble Cheddar and Is It the Same as Colby-Jack?
Marble Cheddar combines white and orange Cheddar curds. Learn what the pattern means, how…
What Is Marco Polo Cheese and How Peppery Is It?
Beecher's Marco Polo blends green and black peppercorns into a creamy firm cheese. Learn…
What Is Marisa Cheese and Which Version Should You Buy?
Marisa is a Wisconsin sheep-milk cheese from Carr Valley. Compare aged and cave-aged versions,…
What Is Mersey Valley Original Vintage Cheese?
Mersey Valley Original Vintage is an Australian crumbly vintage cheddar-style cheese with a bold…
What Is Trappiste de Bricquebec, and Do Monks Still Make It?
Trappiste de Bricquebec is a mild Normandy cheese the monks stopped making in 1961.…
What Is Tunworth, and Why Is Its Rind Wrinkled Not Flat?
Tunworth is an English Camembert-style cheese made in Hampshire. What the wrinkled Geotrichum rind…
What Is Unpasteurised Farmhouse 4 Year Old Cheese?
Unpasteurised Farmhouse 4 Year Old is a raw cow milk aged Gouda-style cheese from…
What Is Yarra Valley Vintage Savourine Cheese?
Yarra Valley Vintage Savourine is an ash-coated matured goat cheese from Victoria, Australia. Learn…
What Makes Abbaye de Belloc Different from Ossau-Iraty?
Abbaye de Belloc is a Basque sheep milk cheese made around Notre Dame de…
What Makes Dubliner Different From Ordinary Cheddar?
Dubliner cheese blends cheddar sharpness, Swiss nuttiness, and Parmesan crunch. Learn its 1990 origin…
What Makes Isle of Mull Cheese Taste So Distinctive?
Isle of Mull is a raw-milk clothbound farmhouse cheddar with a dry, zesty, savory…
What Makes Maytag Blue Different From Other Blue Cheeses?
Maytag Blue has been made in Newton, Iowa since 1941 from homogenized cow's milk.…
What Makes Sparkenhoe Red Leicester Different From the Block?
Sparkenhoe is the only raw milk clothbound Red Leicester made in England. Why the…
Where Bleu d'Auvergne Sits Between Fourme and Roquefort
Bleu d'Auvergne is a creamy French cow's milk blue that balances real intensity with…
Which Cheese Is Cabécou, and Is It the Same as Rocamadour?
Cabécou names a family of small French goat cheeses. Learn how regional types differ,…
Which Fontina Cheese Melts Best, and Is It Val d'Aosta DOP?
Fontina Val d'Aosta DOP is Italy's premier melting cheese, made from raw cow's milk…
Which Grana Padano Aging Band Should You Actually Buy?
Grana Padano is a hard PDO cheese from northern Italy with granular texture and…
