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Cheese pairing ideas, cheese tastings, Philadelphia area events, cheesemaker interviews, cheesemonger appreciation

Can you think of 9 Ways to Pair Le Gruyère? I loved developing this new workshop for Cheese Journeys last week and tryin...
15/09/2026

Can you think of 9 Ways to Pair Le Gruyère? I loved developing this new workshop for Cheese Journeys last week and trying it out in Switzerland after a cave visit to Gourmino, where they age some of the best Le Gruyère AOP.

The challenge is always to take what we taste & explore on a Cheese Journey and bring it home to share at the table. For me, Le Gruyère is one of the most complex cheeses and also one of the most interesting to pair. It can swing savory — toward “Everything Bagel” flavors — and it can swing sweet, if you underscore its notes of fruitiness and brown butter with pairings like dried apricots and caramel.

If you want to work on your pairing prowess, pick up a hunk of Le Gruyère AOP (that’s the name-protected, authentic Swiss version) and try pairing it with a range of savory and sweet items from your pantry & beverage bar!

I’d love to know if you have a fave Gruyère pairing! My favorite: an Old Fashioned🥃!

Spent the day in a hair net at 1500 meters with these beautiful people, as part of a new Cheese Journeys tour with Gourm...
27/08/2026

Spent the day in a hair net at 1500 meters with these beautiful people, as part of a new Cheese Journeys tour with Gourmino — a cooperative of artisan raw-milk cheese producers in Switzerland. We made exactly one alpage cheese in a copper vat using wood-fired steam to heat the milk. Most of the work was done by superstar cheesemaker Stefan Scherrer (king of Sbrinz), along with the cheese-loving wonder-team behind FireFly Farms Creamery in Oregon, Wisconsin. Thank you, Jeanne & Uriah Carpenter! Old pal Joe was also in the house from New Jersey! It was international day on the Alp Fluonalp Alpkäserei und Alp-Beizli, which is a magical place where you can make cheese, hike, spend the night, and enjoy fabulous mountain food, like Alp Macaroni, followed by coffee and fresh cream spiked with apricot schnapps!

Most amazing of all: we learned there is a yodeling club of Alpine cheesemakers, and Stefan is a part of it. We also learned that some cheesemakers still yodel every night in the mountains as a form of prayer to bless their herds and the future of their work.

What a beautiful place this is, surrounded by raw-milk lovers at the top of the world!

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Coucou! Meet Machecoulais, a French cheese from the Loire-Atlantique. It looks like a small loaf of bread, but it’s more...
19/08/2026

Coucou! Meet Machecoulais, a French cheese from the Loire-Atlantique. It looks like a small loaf of bread, but it’s more like a stick of melted butter with a bloomy rind.
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Over the weekend, Machecoulais became a new favorite. Swipe to see the other cheeses that appeared on a special board for my former French professor (Z Tunes) and his pastry-chef partner (Agathe | Ateliers Pâtisserie / Pastry Workshops Montpellier) who offers pastry classes in Montpellier. They stopped over for a cheese apéro and some airco. A beautiful night of cheese, w**e, and buttery apricot tart!

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Butter & sea salt, heatwave edition. Sharing a few favorite glimpses from a week of eclipses, oysters, and a morning wal...
15/08/2026

Butter & sea salt, heatwave edition. Sharing a few favorite glimpses from a week of eclipses, oysters, and a morning walk to the Mediterranean. Eating a fresh croissant on a shady rock overlooking the sea may be my new sunrise salutation.
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Sending out warm wishes from Sète! Turns out the “canicule” is good for staying in & studying French. I’m learning a lot of weather & fire vocabulary, but also reading some great books. Just finished “Les Aventures d’Alice au Pays des Merveilles” (Alice in Wonderland).
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On today’s Substack: everything you need to go on a soft-cheese bender! Link in bio 🧡🎨 Aly Miller
11/08/2026

On today’s Substack: everything you need to go on a soft-cheese bender!

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How about a magic carpet ride to Provence for Le Saint Domnin, a perfect summer goat cheese with a sprig of local lavend...
05/08/2026

How about a magic carpet ride to Provence for Le Saint Domnin, a perfect summer goat cheese with a sprig of local lavender? It’s flip-flop thin, made from raw milk, and produced in the shadow of Mont Ventoux (an iconic spot for cyclists!).

Le Saint Domnin is made by a single family Le Petit Jabron, a goat dairy close to the town of Sisteron. They name this cheese after the local chapel. The same family also makes Banon, a leaf-wrapped heart throb – if you know, you know.

Funny story: I found Le Saint Domnin on a recent adventure where I was looking for a giraffe-themed bookstore in a neighboring village! I found the bookstore – it was stuffed with books and giraffe heads – but it was too hot to shop for books. So, of course I started sniffing around for someplace cool. A café? Instead, I stumbled upon an indoor market with a corner stsand that had a great selection of cheeses, Fromagerie des Halles - Mèze.

When I saw Saint Domnin in the case, I had to have it. I love French goat cheeses that have a personal touch, like ash or herbs.

I carried Saint Domnin home by water taxi. (It’s true.) At home, there was a bag of apricots waiting and a bottle of rosé chilling in the fridge. It’s as if my life was waiting for the right cheese to appear. And, of course it did.

You know the rest of the story.

May you find the right cheese when you need it most – one like this, which was mousse-like inside, and gently tart with an undulating thread of lavender.

Sheep’s milk yogurt with melon, mint & Marcona almonds.⚡️🐑⚡️Back in Sète for some quiet days after zig-zagging around Eu...
14/07/2026

Sheep’s milk yogurt with melon, mint & Marcona almonds.
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Back in Sète for some quiet days after zig-zagging around Europe. Back to my favorite craggy coast, blue sky, pink rock, scrubby vegetation.

Loved goating around with longtime friends Marianne Bernstein and Cindi Ettinger this past week — scrambling down to a favorite swimming hole, strolling along the canal, eating oysters again. Marianne Bernstein wowed us with her photographer’s eye and with her spontaneous desire to hit a gear shop for sailors & make rope jewelry!
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Happy Bastille Day from this happy place…

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Three incarnations of The Cheese Ferrari Ristorante OiO — swipe to work backwards, from this weekend to…five years ago! ...
06/07/2026

Three incarnations of The Cheese Ferrari Ristorante OiO — swipe to work backwards, from this weekend to…five years ago! It was a pleasure to pull on my driving gloves & roll across the terrace dining room again. Wheels on wheels, it’s my favorite way to serve cheese!

It was a pleasure to see not only how my cousin, Chef Leonardo De Paoli, has upgraded his cheese chariot but also how he’s renovated his open-air dining room along the Alzette River in Luxembourg. It’s a place of lactic serenity and elegant gestures, from start to finish, with a tasting menu that is exquisitely crafted. The Cheese Ferrari, which showcases artisan cheeses from Italy, is the finishing touch!

Yours Truly enjoyed serving a number of cheeses from the caves of Beppino Occelli and Luigi Guffanti 1876 — two stops on our Northern Italy Cheese Journeys.

Life has come full circle. Congrats, Cugino, on creating a restaurant cheese experience that’s unlike anyplace else.

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If you visit Luxembourg, be sure to reserve a table Ristorante OiO!

Glimpses from Burgundy with where it’s been a privilege to collaborate with on tasting workshops and adventures in the...
28/05/2026

Glimpses from Burgundy with where it’s been a privilege to collaborate with on tasting workshops and adventures in the field. Literally.

We’ve been enjoying sun and w**e (and a lot of Époisses) with our 16 guests from across the U.S.

Highlights:

🧀 Meeting farmstead Époisses producers at La Ferme des Marronniers
⛏️ cave tour & tasting
🍷 Grand cru tasting with
🍇 Vineyard romp in Pommard with .shaps
📖 Signing books & talking about recipes

Join us next year? Pop over to the Cheese Journeys website for details! If you enjoy w**e & artisan cheese pairings, this is an extraordinary experience.

In Burgundy, France with Cheese Journeys this month! Sharing a few images from our visit to MONS Formation and our chees...
28/05/2026

In Burgundy, France with Cheese Journeys this month! Sharing a few images from our visit to MONS Formation and our cheese workshops at the chateau!

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