• Cheese of the week

    From JIM WELLER@1:135/392 to ALL on Sat Sep 3 19:52:00 2022
    Armstrong B.C. is in the Okanagan basin (Canada's premier wine
    country) just north of Okanagan Lake. It used to be home of
    Armstrong Cheese.

    The Village Cheese Company, owned by ex-employees, took over the
    Armstrong cheese factory after the Armstrong Cheese company was sold
    to Saputo (a Montreal based multi-national) and its cheese plant
    shut down. Armstrong cheese is now merely a brand name of what has
    become a mediocre Cheddar cheese, made who knows where.

    Village Cheese make high quality cheeses including an aged raw milk
    Cheddar which I sampled for the first time tonight. It is a hard,
    dry, compact cheese, that can be sliced, shaved or grated, not at all
    crumbly, with an intense Cheddar flavour. The flavour of the cheese
    is highly pronounced because the cows are outdoors year round with a
    diet of grass only: no hay or grain supplements. The texture isn't
    standard though. Well worth the premium price. I bought my sample
    one day before the sell by date on the label at half price. My store
    is so dumb that way: aged Cheddar is more expensive than young
    Cheddar!



    Cheers

    Jim


    ... What makes cheese so confidential we actually need cheese shredders?

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