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Brique de St Jean, Lingot de St Nicholas, Ossau Iraty (cheesy lovers #79, #80, #81)
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I can't find a picture of this cheese anywhere. Here's a cute baby goat instead!
Brique de St Jean
A small goat’s cheese from France, bought from Mons
We have half a brick of this pale goat’s cheese. It’s covered in a velvet[…]

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Milleens (cheesy lover #78)
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A washed rind cow’s cheese from Co Cork, Ireland, bought from Neal’s Yard Dairy.

We have a wedge of this – an old favourite of mine – for lunch. The crumbly rind is a pale peachy, biscuity orange, and the paste inside’s[…]

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Eating fromage in Paris (part 1)
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Paris is fantastic for the cheese-obsessed. It’s littered with cheese shops vending a huge variety of French cheeses (and a tiny smattering of imported ones).
Bleu d’Causses
This is a cow’s milk cousin of Roquefort, and it looks the[…]

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Isle of Mull cheddar (cheesy lover #77) plus five bonus cheddars
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Isle of Mull cheddar
A hard unpasturised cows-milk cheese, bought from Neals Yard Dairy
This is a wedge of pale yellow cheese – much paler than other cheddars, I think. It’s slightly crumbly and has a pale-white-ish grey rind.
This is ver[…]

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Kraft Singles (cheesy lover)
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A blend of cheese, milk products, and hydrogenated vegetable oil, made in Belgium, and bought from a local shop.
Busy with tiling the kitchen floor, I don’t have time to nip out to Borough market for today’s Cheesy Lover, and have to get […]

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Le Marechal (Cheesy Lover #76)
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A raw, hard cow’s milk cheese from Switzerland, bought from Mons.
When I was buying this cheese, I noticed the name of the cheese very prettily raised around the side of the wheel. I didn’t buy anywhere near a large enough wedge to get wh[…]

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Emmentaler (cheesy lover #75)
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A hard swiss cheese, bought from Kaseswiss

We have a slice of this pale yellow cheese. It’s got a dark brown rind, and is pitted with large holes; it looks like a classic comicbook wedge of cheese.
It has a crumbly, almost bready, texture. Ini[…]

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Tymsboro and Keen’s Cheddar (cheesy lovers #73 & #74)
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Tymsboro
A raw-milk goats cheese from Somerset, bought from Neals Yard Dairy
This is a little pyramid of goaty goodness, covered in a fuzzy white mould and with a layer of dark grey-green ash peeking out from underneath it. Inside the cheese is soft,[…]

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Gorgonzola dolce (cheesy lover #72) and the Kat Cheese Challenge
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Kat graciously offered to come and lend her tastebuds to science. She is not a fan of blue cheese, and I wanted to test some tasty, friendly and approachable blues on some blue-hater. We got some sqidgy creamy dolcelatte and some spicy cashel blue, a[…]

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Golden Cross, Cotherstone (cheesy lovers #70 & #71)
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Golden Cross
A raw-milk goat’s cheese, made in East Sussex and bought from Neal’s Yard Dairy
This is a white log, covered in a soft and fuzzy white mould. Slicing through, underneath the thin furry covering is an even thinner line of dark[…]

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