Mahon
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$8.20
Mahón is a lovely Spanish gourmet cheese. This distinctively fruity cheese is named for the major town of the island of Menorca. Local farmers have been making cheese here for centuries but its reputation rests on the skill of the local experts who collect the young cheeses from the farmers and ripen them in underground cellars for 2 months to 2 years.
Produced in irregular squares with rounded corners, the young gourmet cheese has a golden rind which darkens as it ages. The ivory paste, too, darkens and hardens and develops a scattering of tiny holes. Mahón has a milky sweet and floral aroma. However, the taste is surprisingly sour and slightly tangy with roasted nuts and fudge-like toffee...
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Manchego 3 months old
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$6.83
Manchego can be devoured at many ages; this variety is 3 months old and aged naturally, gradually forming its yellowish golden rind and an ivory colored cheese with a rich, buttery flavor. It is less dry than older Manchegos, but already has the flavor characteristic of a well-matured.
We cut and wrap this cheese in wedges of 8 ounces and 1 pound....
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Manchego 6 months old
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$8.83
Manchego is Spain's best-known sheep's milk cheese. It is named for the province where it is made-La Mancha, home of Don Quixote. However, it is not as flamboyant as the old windmill fighter.
It remains relatively sweet and mild at any age with a touch of salty nuts. Manchego was originally made to barter at livestock markets and it provided durable food for the shepherds who accompanied their flocks on their long annual migrations in search of good pasture.
During the ripening period the surface becomes covered with a greenish-black mold. Some cheeses have this rubbed off before they are sold. The deep ivory paste is firm, compact, and perforated with tiny holes. It has an aromatic smell ...
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Manouri
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$10.76
Manouri is essentially a sheep's milk 'cream cheese', made by adding sheep's milk cream to the whey from the feta production. This cheese is made in months when grasses are green for a sweet flavor. The whey from the feta cheese production is boiled, and fresh sheep’s milk cream is added. Manouri, also known as Manoypi, is made in Thessalia, and in central and western Macedonia, both in central and northern Greece.
The cheese maker forms each Manouri log by scooping the curds in a special cotton sack and squeezing out the excess whey by hand. The sacks are then hung in a temperature-controlled room for several days as the excess whey drains. The result is a creamier, milder, and less salty ...
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Marco Polo
Was $8.48 Sale Price:
$7.21
Marco Polo is an one of the artisanal cheeses of Beecher's Handmade Cheeses and a great cheese as it received more than one award, the latest being a Gold Medal for Hard Pressed or Repressed Cheddar with Savoury Additives in the World Cheese Awards in the UK in 2007.
Marco Polo takes lightly milled green and black Madagascar peppercorns and blends them with our creamy Flagship, resulting in a cheese with bite and texture as adventurous as its namesake - the great thirteenth century adventurer Marco Polo credited with bringing pepper and other discoveries to Europe....
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Maribo Walnut
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$9.32
The double-cream Mirabo Walnut offers a creamy background of soft-ripened cheese with small pieces of real walnut that add a distinct flavor.
This tasty combination of the calcium from the cheese and the fiber and protein from the nuts makes Mirabo Walnut an indulgence. With its unique blossom shape and white mold, Mirabo has an unmistakable appearance that can be the finishing touch on any cheeseboard.
We cut and wrap this cheese in wedges of 8 ounces and 1 pound....
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Mariolles
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Maroilles has a vivid nickname: vieux paunt or 'old stinker'. Maroilles is a very pungent French gourmet cheese. It is an ancient monastery cheese and was invented at the Abbey of Maroilles in the tenth century. Today, it is still produced locally in a variety of shapes and sizes, but the most common are square.
The typically orange-red washed rind is recognizable by its rough ridging. It is wrapped and packed in boxes. Ideally you should open the box before purchase to ensure that the cheese is in good shape.
The paste of good Maroilles is soft, bulging slightly but not too much, and with numerous small holes. The aroma of the rind is strong and meaty. The paste has a similar though light...
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Mascarpone from Vermont
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$6.16
Vermont Mascarpone has garnered accolades for its fresh, rich cream flavor and smooth, thick texture - essential for Tiramisu and other dessert creations. All natural, made with Vermont rBST free cream. It won First Place at the 2006 American Cheese Society.
This wonderful product has a fresh cream flavor, is luxurious, smooth, and has a thick texture. It adds richness and flavor to any dish; it is seen by many French chefs as an essential ingredient used by French chefs and let's not forget that it is the main ingredient in the classic Italian dessert tiramisu. Mascarpone will also do wonders in risotto, polenta, grits, pasta and sauces.
We have 2 sizes of tubs, one small, containing 8 ou...
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Maytag Blue Cheese
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Already in 1941 the Maytag Dairy Farms began producing world famous Blue Cheese in Iowa. Now several generations later the Maytag family is still producing the same high quality blue cheese as in the earlier 1900s.
Maytag Blue is made with unpasteurized milk from Holstein cattle; the hand-made cheese is made in small batches and is aged for months in the Maytag curing caves.
Maytag Blue Cheese is used in many recipes and loved all over the country. The cheese has a delicious flavor and a crumbly texture.
We cut and wrap this cheese in wedges of 8 ounces and 1 pound....
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Mezzo Secco Partially Dry Jack
Was $12.69 Sale Price:
$10.79
Mezzo Secco Monterey Cheese is made according to a very old recipe, made for the time that refrigeration was still rather traditional. A Mezzo Secco Monterey Jack does not run easily, but is not as firm as a dry Monterey Jack - hence Mezzo Secco is a partially dry Monterey Jack.
The Vella Cheese Company won many rewards with this artisanal Mezzo Secco cheese. The latest being in 2007; a Silver Medal, Wisconsin Cheesemakers Association...
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Midnight Moon
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Midnight Moon is aged for at least one year, resulting in a cheese with a nutty and brown-buttery flavor, with prominent caramel notes.
This artisanal gouda-style cheese has a beautiful pale, ivory color, the texture is firm and dense and the taste is smooth with a slight graininess long-aged cheeses have. The wheel is finished in a beautiful black wax that accentuates the pale paste.
An entire wheel of Midnight Moon weighs about 9 pounds and we sell this gourmet cheese in wedges of 8 ounces and 1 pound....
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Milleens
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Milleens is an artisanal washed rind cheese with a soft paste, made from cow's milk on the rugged Beara peninsula of South West Ireland. The complex and delicate cheese is made from the milk of Friesian cows grazing the mountains and pastures of the peninsula. Milleens is the longest established Irish farmhouse cheese.
The cheese has a mottled peach and sometimes fiery orange washed rind and within is a paste that goes from semi-firm to spilling cream. The flavor is a complex mix of delicate herbs along with a spicy tang....
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Mimolette matured
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$12.96
Mimolette is a gourmet cheese that looks like an orange soccer ball with a light powdering of snow. This mature version of the French cheese from the Lille is a pressed cooked cheese that is aged for 12 months.
Mimolette has a distinctive flavor of butterscotch and caramel. The rind is fairly smooth in the young cheese but, as it ages, it becomes thick and deeply pitted. Cheese mites proliferate in these pits to give the characteristic powdery appearance of the older cheese.
The paste is dyed to a deep orange color which darkens toward the rind. The texture is hard-firm and breaks rather like fudge....
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Mizithra
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$5.53
Mizithra is a traditional pasteurized cheese made from sheep's milk and some added whey. The cheese is soft, snow-white, creamy, and granular; its flavor is similar to ricotta salata. It is made in various sizes and shapes, most commonly a truncated cone.
Mizithra is used in an assortment of both sweet an savory dishes; fresh mizithra with honey and fruit, for example, is a popular dessert....
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Montbriac
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Montbriac or Rochebaron is a wonderful French blue gourmet cheese that is very different from many of the softer brie-blue combinations available.
It is very striking on the cheese board with its soft, gooey texture, and blue veining outlined by the blue-gray color of the ash-covered rind.
The flavor of this attractive gourmet cheese is creamy, complex and satisfying while being not too sharp or aggressive. It is delicious on crusty bread and fresh fruit.
We sell this cheese as an entire wheel, approximately 18 ounces, or a partial wheel, approximately 8 ounces....
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Morbier
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$7.83
Morbier A.O.C. is a 'lait cru', raw milk cheese. It has a soft paste that has a distinct aroma and with a flavor that only lingers on your taste buds for a short while. The maturation of Morbier is usually 3 months.
At first glance this French gourmet cheese from the Jura looks as though it has a band of mold running through the middle of it. In fact, it is ash or charcoal. In the past the cheese was made from leftover curd from other cheeses. In those days Morbier was made on farms on the lower slopes of the Jura during the winter months.
The first day's curd was preserved by a layer of ash until the next day's curd was added.
Morbier is made in flattish cylinders with a grayish-brown ri...
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Moutardier
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$11.57
Moutardier is a specialty cheese from Switzerland. This semi-soft cheese is mixed with zesty mustard seeds. Not a surprising combination, as many people dip their cheese in mustard or use mustard on their sandwich.
However, it is not often that you see the addition of mustard seeds in a cheese and you will experience how versatile this cheese can be.
We cut and wrap this cheese in wedges of 8 ounces and 1 pound....
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Mozzarella
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$4.79
Fresh Mozzarella is made from fresh cow's milk and crafted according to Italian recipes. The milk Rio Briati is using is free from additives and hormones.
Rio Briati's fresh Mozzarella is water packed in tubs of 8 ounces and we have the following sizes available: Perle – Mozzarella balls of 1/10 of an ounce, Ciliegine – Mozzarella balls of 1/3 of an ounce, Bocconcini –Mozzarella balls of 4 ounces....
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Mozzarella di Bufala
Was $10.38 Sale Price:
$5.99
Buffalo-milk Mozzarella has a soft and springy texture with signs of leafing. The color is porcelain white and has a delicate aroma. It is well worth the extra time and cost of seeking it out.
Italian Mozzarella is produced in small, almost oval-shaped balls and it is stored in bowls or in sealed bags of whey.
The texture of the young cheese is quite elastic and supple and can be sliced reasonably easily. As it ripens, it becomes rather softer. It also increases in flavor. However, you should not allow this process to go too far or the cheese will deteriorate....
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Munster au Cumin
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Munster with caraway seeds is an interesting variant of the plain Munster. This gourmet variation is also a soft cheese of pasteurized cow milk, and has a washed rind and scattered with caraway seeds.
The caraway seeds have a spicy influence on the otherwise strong taste of Munster....
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Munster Gerome
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$14.18
Munster Géromé is produced in an area that not only makes very pungent cheeses, but also excellent spicy wines. Its production center is the pretty village of Munster, set amid pastures and vineyards.
A young Munster cheese has a thin but firm pinkish-red rind with white paste. As it matures the rind turns to a darker russet color with a deep straw-colored interior. The paste is soft and supple with small holes in it. It becomes almost creamy in texture as it matures. The maturation time is usually 2 to 3 months.
The rind has a strong farmyard aroma with a lemony tang to it and this flavor transfers itself to the paste which is also strong in flavor and has a robustly meaty taste to it.
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Murol
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Murol is by its origins the younger brother of Saint-Nectaire. This cheese was created between the two world wars by Monsier Jules Berioux, a local affineur.
It is traditional, creamery, semi-soft gourmet cheese made from raw cow's milk. The thin, smooth, washed rind is mottled pinkish-yellow.
Murol cheese is supple, creamy and very smooth, with a sweet taste of fresh milk. The paste is yellow, when ripe fine-textured and very elastic. Its smell and flavor are mild....
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