GET TO KNOW
Our Get to Know Series offers a chance to better understand (or to simply enjoy!) specific styles or types of cheese. It’s a deep dive, or maybe a free fall. Rather, it might just be a place to begin a journey, to find something new or reevaluate something we’d thought we knew. Even as experienced cheesemongers, we are constantly learning and growing through experience. We can still be surprised, for example, when trying a new cheese for the first time, that goat cheese could be this! or I can’t believe 36-months aging does this! The Get to Know Series is an exploration of those kinds of moments, where suddenly, our taste buds explode and our worlds expand.
GET TO KNOW: GOUDA
It’s all good-a. That’s a good-a cheese. Okay, that’s enough puns. Anyway, it’s pronounced rhow-da. (As in rhow-da heck is this cheese so good?) Coated in a wax-rind, often a brightly colored one, gouda is one of the most recognizable cheeses in the world. And yet, we most often see gouda as a young cow’s milk cheese, mild and creamy. With this plate, we’ll see what more gouda has to offer. Here, you’ll taste the intense wonder that is an aged gouda; finding bold nutty notes. And you’ll find the richness offered by a goat’s milk and/or sheep’s milk gouda.
GET TO KNOW: GOAT’S MILK
If asked to close our eyes and imagine goat cheese, most of us would see a pillowy, white log of fresh cheese. And maybe we love that log and maybe we don’t, but either way we’re selling goat cheese short if that’s the only kind we see. From goudas to cheddars to blues, from fresh to lactic soft-ripened to firm aged ones… goat cheese is everything! The featured cheeses will change based on what’s in our cheese case, but this plate will always be a celebration of goat cheese.
GET TO KNOW: CHARCUTERIE
A SENSE OF PLACE
TERROIR SPOTLIGHT: PENNSYLVANIA
HERDER’S SELECT
A tray of rustic cheese favorites with an emphasis on big animal flavors, accompanied by pastoral condiments and cured meats! This platter emphasizes terroir and the tradition of European cheesemaking from grazing to your plate.
MARITIME
A taste of the bounty of the deep with cheeses and accoutrement for a chic, sophisticated platter that will satisfy the landlocked gourmand. A great way to explore serving fine tinned seafood conservas without the stress of the fishmarket. Featuring specialties from French Brittany and Spanish Basque Country.
SIMPLY EATING TOGETHER
Cheese is for any occasion, that much is a clear-cut fact. And we are firm believers that the act of sharing food can bring us closer together. It’s a big part of why we do what we do here! But we know that people’s tastes and dietary choices and restrictions vary widely. It is often difficult to feed a crowd of friends let alone a crowd of strangers. Or find something vegan friendly. These selections are designed with some of that in mind.
SAFE BET 2.0
This plate has been curated with the understanding that each and every one of us is on our own, personal cheese journey. The Safe Bet 2.0 is an introduction of sorts, a selection of crowd-pleasing cheeses that are familiar yet worthy of cheese-plate treatment. For the novice, it is a welcoming invitation to the world of artisan cheese. For the more experienced cheese-lover, it is something you can enjoy yourself while looking for converts sharing with friends. And there will be fig spread. Everyone loves fig spread.
THE VEGETARIAN
Featuring a rotating selection of cheeses made without the use of animal rennet, The Vegetarian is exactly what it says it is, vegetarian friendly. With our made-in-house vegetable pâté on the plate, we even have the umami-rich accompaniment that will satisfy your meat-eating friends and family. Seasonal, local pickled vegetables too!
THE VEGAN
Yes, vegan! With this plate, we’ll have everything from The Vegetarian, but with an assortment of our made-in-house cashew-based spreads instead of the milk ones.