Erika Kubick, former cheesemonger and author of Cheese Sex Death: A Bible for the Cheese Obsessed, calls out Trader Joe’s ...

“It really validates what we have done here.” The traditional-style Gouda, aged for 13 months, was the top cheese among 2,414 entries selected by a panel of 38 judges in Green Bay ...

Brie is a soft-ripened cheese that comes inside a thick, white rind. But can you eat Brie rind ... a human-made wrapper is the red wax found on Gouda. Brie is the star of any charcuterie board ...

The biennial contest, held in opposite years of the World Championship Cheese Contest in Madison, has seen Wisconsin ...

For the second consecutive contest, an aged gouda called Arethusa Europa from Arethusa Farm Dairy in Bantam, Connecticut, ...

Molds on cheese are self-domesticated and rarely toxic. Repeatedly patted down to form the rind, mold breaks down the ...

The distinctive smells they give off come from the cheeses’ rinds—specifically, the multitude of microbes blooming on the crumbly or waxy surface of the creamy curd. “The cheese rind microbiome lets ...

Arethusa Farm Dairy in Connecticut won the U.S. Championship Cheese Contest for the second consecutive contest. Their winning entry, Arethusa Europa, is an aged gouda that narrowly beat out the ...