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How a Young Pastry Cook Inspired Blue Hill’s Cheese Plate
Jane Austen wrote, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in want of a wife.” And a chef in possession of good fortune is usually in want of a...
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Jason Sobocinkski’s New Cooking Channel Show Stars More Than Caseus
Photo credit: Vasilios Sfinarolakis Chasing cheese makes for some wickedly zany moments when Jason Sobocinski gets in front of a TV camera. The 33-year-old maitre fromager gleefully takes viewers on a...
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How Does Edible Manhattan Procrastinate? We Visit Beecher’s Handmade Cheese
We don’t know what your procrastination techniques might be, but ours usually involve window shopping at grocery stores. It’s “research,” right? We’re not really goofing off. So while we should’ve...
View ArticleMurray’s Cheese
On any given day at Murray’s Cheese—the 80-year-old shop on Bleecker Street where caseus is king—you’ll see not just tourists off the double-decker bus (geeking out on the sheer size of the wheels of...
View ArticleAnne Saxelby, Dairy Queen: Bringing American Cheese to America
Mark Isreal, the famously cranky baker behind the Doughnut Plant, was standing on the Grand Street sidewalk with Anne Saxelby, waxing poetic about her and the tiny, eponymous cheese stall tucked in...
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March-April 2012: The Good Dairy Issue
Some locavores seem like Luddites. As a recent Portlandia episode made plain, all this seeding, weeding, canning and curing feels like a throwback to the ’90s—the 1890s. Given the bad news about...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: A Reader Writes in with Memories of Murray’s
A reader writes in to tell about our recent profiles of Alleva Dairy and Murray’s Cheese in the current Dairy issue, remembering several decades of shopping at both of these incredible shops, which now...
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Good Dairy In Photos
Last week local cheesemongers, milk purveyors, ice cream makers and butter churners took over the giant white space–fitting for a dairy-filled evening–at The Openhouse Gallery in Soho. From the sweet...
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Local Cheesemakers Wash Their Curds in Everything from Beer to Absinthe
Alcohol and cheese are a natural match — and I’m not just talking about pairing a smoked porter with a sweet, peppery blue, or a grüner with a Loire Valley crottin. There’s a whole world of cheeses...
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