Four hundred years ago to the year, in 1615, Miguel de Cervantes published the second edition of Don Quixote de la Mancha. The world’s first novel has a couple dozen references to cheese, and you can bet that Cervantes was thinking of a cheese we’d recognize today as Manchego. Manchego was made in the La […]
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Goat’s milk cheeses run the gamut of flavors, but when most of us hear the term one type comes to mind: soft, earthy, citrusy cheese, with a chalky edge and a barnyardy bite. We don’t lump all cow’s milk cheeses into one flavor category. Why are we so cavalier with goats? Fresh goat cheese should […]
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Imagine if your job was to taste cheese. Sounds pretty great, right? But what if, instead of snacking on lots of different kinds of cheeses with maybe some wine, you tasted only one kind of cheese. Dozens of samples from identical wheels, one after the other, all day long. The wheels were all made with […]
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In French there’s a saying: “se croire le premier moutardier du pape.” Roughly translated, it means, “he thinks he’s the pope’s mustard maker.” It describes someone who’s perhaps a bit too proud of himself. The story goes that Pope John XXII got a hankering for the unique purple mustard of his hometown in southwestern France, […]
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July 9, 1995—19 years ago yesterday—is the “birthday” of Zingerman’s Mail Order. Sort of. Actually we kind of made it up. Our anniversary isn’t as clear-cut as at some other businesses. We didn’t have a first day that we opened our doors the way Zingerman’s Delicatessen did on March 15, 1982. We don’t have a […]
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