Featured Photo Credit: “twinfarmblog” All October long we have been spotlighting our top American original cheeses to spread light on just how innovative our local fromagers can be. From Atlantic to Pacific, Di Bruno Bros. sources cheeses evoking the classic tastes of Europe to new creations the world has never seen or tasted before and
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Category: Random Fun!
Turn Your Halloween Pumpkin into Your Next Snack!
One of the great Halloween traditions also happens to be an excuse for a fantastic snack. Have you carved any pumpkins yet? Don’t trash those precious seeds, roast them! We have three different spice blends to add to your homemade pumpkin seeds. Carving a lot of pumpkins? Try all three and pair with your favorite cheeses!
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Meatball Mondays – Beer & Wine Pairings
There are still two Meatball Mondays left to get your hands on these tasty baked meatballs at half price! Meatballs can be a delicious answer to a hectic weeknight dinner or a comforting workday lunch. Enjoyed on their own, or as a part of another recipe, we recommend washing them down with something equally satisfying. Jeff,
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A Well-Rounded, All-American Cheese Plate
What does a blue, a Gouda, and a fresh all have in common? They create one of the most fall-centric pairing options we have ever tasted and the cherry on top is they are all sourced locally, from creameries raised on American soil! Take a bite and recall memories of autumns spent playing in vibrant
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Cooking in the Wild!
We’re cooking in the wild with Certified Cheese Professional, Amanda B.! Camping doesn’t have to mean eating baked beans out of a can or having a granola bar for every meal. Amanda, cheesemonger and manager of the Franklin location, has opened our eyes to the world of inspired outdoor eating. She fills us in on
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Foodoscopes — July 2016
All illustrations by Erin Filson. JULY 2016 CANCER June 21 – July 22 —First things first: Happy Birthday, you maverick renegade. With a new moon in Cancer and a rousing, patriotic holiday around the bend, you simply couldn’t be more in your element. Celebrate this astrological comfort while exercising your creativity in all things cooking!
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A Monger’s Adventure — Visit to Jasper Hill Cellars May 2016
by Samantha Kane, Cheesemonger at Di Bruno Bros. How many businesses can you visit and see all their most prized and intimate ideas and possessions? How many farms can you find the owner, covered in hay, sweat, and poo, talking to the cows and watching over them like babes in a cradle? Then, to find
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3 Cheese Pops for Your Next Picnic
Yes, you read that right. Cheese pops! Stick those pairings on a stick. Amp up your next picnic with these delicious bites. The Italian Classic Pop on roasted tomatoes, slather on speck, spear some mozzarella, and top with dollops of fresh pesto! And BOOM. The Baby Caprese Caprese salad on-the-go! Plop a cherry tomato and a piece of
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The Fascinating Comté Museum of Fort Lucotte
by Ann Campbell, CCP If you are lucky in this life, and hope that you are, you will visit places that never seem real, the sort of places we attempt to evoke in novels and film. We revisit them in dreams, their memories there to remind us that such places really do exist. My own
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Meet the Maker Behind the Cheese Champs of 2016 AND 2017: Betty Koster and her L’Amuse Gouda and Brabander
Congrats to Fromagerie L’Amuse and Betty Koster for a Cheese Madness back-to-back! In 2016, we wrote the post below celebrating the win of L’Amuse Gouda, and now in 2017, another cheese from this creamery has also taken a March Madness win! Read about Brabander Gouda’s 2017 triumph by clicking here. In 1989, Betty Koster founded
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