Flavoured cheeses T
his cheese family is a matter for your discretion, but you ignore it at your peril. If enough customers ask for Wensleydale with cranberries, you’ve probably got to stock it, but favourite is to go for real flavoured cheeses –
those where the additives are introduced during cheese-making, not afterwards. There are one or two quite interesting ones about – Dutch style with cumin seeds, cheddar styles with shredded vegetables and so on.
Cahills in Ireland does a Porter cheese made using a Porter Ale made by Guinness, which works well in a cheese salad. There is no need for a list of these cheeses – you’re probably aware of them already.
Fresh cheese I
n the very fresh cheese category, the only British mozzarella to come remotely close to the real thing made in Italy is the Laverstoke buffalo milk mozzarella made at ex-Formula 1 world champion Jody Scheckter’s Hampshire farm. His investment is beginning to pay off – when his cheese-maker gets it right it’s divine, as can be the Burrata, a clever confection of a hollowed-out buffalo mozzarella filled with a mix of fresh cream and mozzarella pieces.
PRODUCERS, DISTRIBUTORS & WHOLESALERS Alvis Bros 01934 864600 www.lyecrosscheese.co.uk
Cooleeney Farmhouse 00353 50445112 www.cooleeney.com
Interprofession Du Gruyère 01262 470272 www.gruyere.com
Oxford Cheese Company 01844 338055 www.oxfordfinefood.com
Anthony Rowcliffe 01892 838999 www.rowcliffe.co.uk
Cornish Country Larder 01460 282010 www.ccl-ltd.co.uk
J.O.D Food Products 00353 6371209 jodfoodproducts@eircom.net
Paxton & Whitfield 01451 823460 www.paxtonandwhitfield.co.uk
Avilton Foods 01392 822200 www.avilton-foods.co.uk
Cryer & Stott 01977 511022 www.cryerandstott.co.uk
Keen’s Cheddar 01963 32286 www.keenscheddar.co.uk
Pilgrims Choice 01963 828868 www.pilgrimschoice.com
Barbers 01749 860666 www.marylandfarm.co.uk
Dairy Crest 01372 472286 www.dairycrest.co.uk
Leopard Oceanic 01747 811188 leopardoceanic@btconnect.com
Quickes Traditional 01392 851222 www.quickes.co.uk
Bath Soft Cheese 01225 331601 www.parkfarm.co.uk
Daylesford Organic 020 7259 4900 www.daylesfordorganic.com
Lewis and Cooper 01609 772880 www.lewisandcooper.co.uk
South Lakes Organic Milk 01229 586153
Cahills Farm Cheese 00353 6962365 www.cahillscheese.ie
Emmi UK 020 8875 2540 www.uk.emmi.ch
Carron Lodge 01995 640352 www.carronlodge.com
Grana Padano 0039 03091 09811 www.granapadano.com
Wensleydale Dairy Products Lyburn Farmhouse Cheesemakers 01969 667664 01794 399982 www.wensleydale.co.uk www.lyburncheese.co.uk Welsh Assembly Government Lynher Dairies Cheese 029 20 442627 01872 870789 www.walesthetruetaste.com www.lynherdairies.co.uk
The Cheese Cellar 020 7819 6000 www.cheesecellar.co.uk
Gubbeen Farmhouse 00353 2828231 www.gubbeen.com
Milk Link 01454 252506 www.milklink.com
The Cheese Shop 01244 346240 www.chestercheeseshop.co.uk
Hamish Johnston 020 7738 0741 www.hamishjohston.com
Neal’s Yard Dairy 020 7500 7662 www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk
Cibosano 020 8207 5820 www.cibosano.co.uk
High Weald Dairy 01825 791636 www.highwealddairy.co.uk
Northumberland Cheese 01670 789798 www.northumberlandcheese.co.uk
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FINE FOOD DIGEST
| Guide to British & Irish Cheeses
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