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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.
Biscuits for Cheese (Marks and Spencer)
POSTED BY PHILIP ON DECEMBER 31, 2020
Deciding between a “tall” vs “wide” biscuit strategy for accompanying cheese is always a complex challenge. A “tall” biscuit selection uses a highly-restricted number of mono-type cheese biscuit packe...
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33 types of chocolate milk
POSTED BY PHILIP ON DECEMBER 24, 2020
Arguably, chocolate milk is not a cheese. However, anyone who’s read 30+ cheese reviews is probably at least an interested observer of the wider dairy landscape, so this article may be of relevance. T...
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Red Leicester Bite Ingot Truckle (Tesco Finest)
POSTED BY PHILIP ON DECEMBER 17, 2020
An admirable second entry under the “cheese ingot” banner, which as is well-documented elsewhere I am physiologically unable to resist. This is a pretty decent Red Leicester which is as easy to eat as...
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Christmas Cake Flavour Yorkshire Wensleydale (Asda)
POSTED BY PHILIP ON DECEMBER 10, 2020
No reasonable adult of sound mind could deny this is a Christmas cheese. I reviewed this cheese at the request of a reader; despite my previously-documented intense dislike of both fruitcakes and du...
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Gouda with red pesto, fenugreek and Italian herbs (Villa Rosso)
POSTED BY PHILIP ON DECEMBER 7, 2020
This cheese is a conventional (“ legacy “) cow’s milk Gouda, bafflingly infused with red pesto, fenugreek, and perhaps other herbs. Phil and Pez bought this cheese purely on the basis of its rosy fest...
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Gruyere (Tesco Finest Swiss Reserve)
POSTED BY PHILIP ON DECEMBER 5, 2020
A raucous and rambunctious hard cheese, this is a tasty delight given sufficient pre-consumption warming to develop its full taste. Gruyère shines as a winsome, nutty contrast to the heavier flavours ...
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Coastal Bite Ingot Truckle (Tesco Finest)
POSTED BY PHILIP ON DECEMBER 3, 2020
I cannot deny I bought this simply because it was termed “a cheese ingot”. I am never one to turn down cheese marketed in the same terms as gold bullion; once again, I was not disappointed. This chees...
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The Twelve Days of Cheesemas
POSTED BY PHILIP ON DECEMBER 1, 2020
There are many things to celebrate at Christmas. While the evenings may be dark; the world convulsed with relentless geopolitical upheaval; lockdowns and restrictions keeping friends and family apart,...
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Burrata (Galbani)
POSTED BY PHILIP ON NOVEMBER 26, 2020
What does it mean, to be a cheese? The dairy pantheon is extraordinarily diverse and admits a striking variety of flavours, textures, shapes and experiences. It is on the face of it as bizarre and won...
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Langres (Tesco ‘Finest’)
POSTED BY PHILIP ON NOVEMBER 19, 2020
A farmier, punchier alternative to venerable cheeseboard workhorses like Brie and Camembert, Langres is a semi-soft, washed-rind French cow’s cheese. It is substantially stronger in flavour and smell;...
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