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Philip
I love cheese. Most of all I love the strongest Cheddars available; ewe's or goat's cheese are also often hits.
Tesco Soft Bovine Board – Final
POSTED BY PHILIP ON MARCH 25, 2021
After a two-week hiatus to refresh our palettes and rekindle our lust for soft cheese, we put the four qualifiers from the group stages – together with the wildcard entrant I can now reveal is the ash...
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Group 3 – Mould-ripened
POSTED BY PHILIP ON MARCH 4, 2021
Leaving behind the stifling uniformity of five types of Brie, and the punishing farminess of three washed-rind cheeses, we turn at last to the most varied (and in my view most enjoyable) group stage o...
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Group 2 – Washed-Rind
POSTED BY PHILIP ON FEBRUARY 25, 2021
For many long months, I have lain awake at night pondering the relative merits of two extremely similar cheeses: Tesco Finest Époisses and Tesco Finest Langres . Now, at last, they meet head-to-hea...
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Group 1 – Brie
POSTED BY PHILIP ON FEBRUARY 18, 2021
This is the first group stage for the Tesco Soft Bovine Board . Five Brie competed head-to-head for the one place up for grabs on the final board. Brie is a mild, soft-ripened cheese originating in ...
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Tesco Soft Bovine Board – Introduction
POSTED BY PHILIP ON FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Hype is building for the Spring edition of the Tesco Soft Bovine Board (colloquially: “the bove board”). This festival of cheeses that are strictly: from Tesco; lactated by cows; below a certain minim...
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Fro Sourdough With Sea Salt Crackers (Tesco)
POSTED BY PHILIP ON FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Seldom does a fairly plain cheese cracker provide such a rollercoaster ride of dashed hopes and unexpected joys. I initially purchased these primarily to sneer at their aggressively hipster marketing ...
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Halloumi (Tesco)
POSTED BY PHILIP ON FEBRUARY 4, 2021
It is on the face of it absurd that heating ice turns it into water. You’re trying to tell me that the iron-hard crystalline scourge of hubris-laden passenger liners, a formidable foe even for Vladimi...
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Époisses (Tesco Finest)
POSTED BY PHILIP ON JANUARY 21, 2021
Culinary folklore has it that the pungent Époisses cheese possesses a stench so foetid its transportation on some public transport networks in France is outlawed. Now, I am an avid fan of any cheese t...
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Saint-Félicien (Tesco Finest)
POSTED BY PHILIP ON JANUARY 14, 2021
Saint-Félicien is a deliciously creamy soft cow’s-milk cheese. The nearest mass-market touchstone is a really creamy Brie, and this cheese belongs to the same soft-ripened family, but that doesn’t do ...
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Christmas Cheese Board Review
POSTED BY PHILIP ON JANUARY 7, 2021
Overall this was a pretty successful and well-balanced board. There was good variety across the milk-giving-animal spectrum, with a soft suprabovine focus which yielded quite a sharp and tasty selecti...
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