Parmigiano-Reggiano
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$11.32
Parmigiano-Reggiano is a member of the Grana family of very hard Italian cheeses and it has been produced in small-size dairy farms for many hundreds of years. In the English-speaking world this famous cheese is generally known as Parmesan.
Parmesan cheese is made in squat drums which look rather like small beer barrels. The rind is a shiny golden brown color and has the name of the cheese printed allover it. The paste is a good straw-yellow color with a grainy, flaky, and brittle texture which hardens as the cheese matures. The maturation time is 24 months or more.
The cheese has a radial grain which makes it difficult to cut with a knife. Instead it is split open with a special wide-blad...
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Parrano
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Parrano is a Dutch Gouda-style cheese that is aged for 5 months, developing its sweet nutty flavor while maintaining the firm, smooth texture of a young Gouda.
This gourmet cheese is made from pasteurized cow's milk perfect combination brings you the best of both worlds: a cheese that is full of flavor and versatile enough to cut, grate and melt and you will enjoy it as a dessert cheese.
We cut and wrap this cheese in wedges of 8 ounces and 1 pound....
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Pecorino Brigante
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Pecorino Brigante is the most delicious of the pecorinos and is made in the area around Thiesi in the north of the island of Sardinia.
It is eaten all over Sardinia where it is for the sweetness of the sheep's milk from which it is made.
The taste of this gourmet cheese can be described as unusual lemony and yeasty, combined with a marvelous creamy texture....
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Pecorino Pepato
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Pecorino Pepato is a gourmet Italian sheep's milk cheese studded with peppercorns. It's an intense, salty cheese that would be hard to appreciate on its own, but as a seasoning for pasta, especially with fava beans or tomato sauce, it is hard to match. Traditional pecorino pepato comes from Sicily, where it is part of the regional cooking.
Because the name is not protected legally, any pecorino producer could make a pepato. You may find this cheese at various stages of maturity.
This gourmet cheese has a pronounced farmers aroma and piquant, intense flavor that is sometimes a bit much on its own....
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Pecorino Romano
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$10.75
Pecorino Romano is rubbed with oil and wood ash. Fresco or young cheeses usually have a very white paste which can be quite crumbly in texture. The paste darkens and hardens as the cheese matures. Really mature Pecorino can be very hard with casein crystals.
In the hills of central and southern Italy, cows are rare. Instead ewe's milk is used to make hard compact cheeses which are generally known as Pecorino. Each region has its own type. Pecorino may be sold fresh, medium, or mature, and the rind tends to vary in color depending on the whim of the producer.
Aromas and flavors, too, change as the cheese matures. The young cheese can be quite mild with just a light touch of lemon, whereas o...
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Pecorino Sardo Dolce
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The Sardinian Pecorino Sardo Dolce is a sweet sheep milk cheese that is matured for a period of 20-60 days, resulting in a compact very light yellow, almost white paste.
This gourmet cheese has a delicate, sweet and aromatic flavor. The matured version, Pecorino Sardo Matured has a stronger flavor and a darker color....
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Pecorino Sardo Matured
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Pecorino Sardo is a relatively recent Sardinian cousin of the ancient roman version. Produced on the wild and beautiful island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea, The matured version of the Pecorino Sardo can be spicier than Pecorino Romano, depending on how long each of them is aged.
Pecorino Sardo is a traditional cylindrical, semi-cooked hard gourmet cheese made from whole sheep's milk. This matured cheese is the ripened version and is harder than the sweet soft Sardo dolce and is aged for 2 to 12 months.
The rind has a straw-yellow rind that may become brown as it matures. The body is firm and presents only a few scattered eyes. The matured Pecorino Sardo becomes harder during aging ...
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Pecorino Toscano D.O.P
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Pecorino Toscano is an Italian sheeps' milk cheese that is considerably milder than the Pecorino Romano. This particular Pecorino Toscano is made Val D'Orcia under strick supervision of the Consortium of Pecorino Toscano.
Fresh Pecorino Toscano is mild, and rather creamy, with some nutty hints. With age Pecorino Toscano becomes firmer and sharper, though it never approaches the sharpness and the saltiness of Pecorino Romano. This gourmet cheese is aged for approximately 6 months and has a firm texture, a nutty flavor and hints of butterscotch.
We cut and wrap this cheese in wedges of 8 ounces and 1 pound....
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Pepato
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Pepato is a raw semi-soft sheep cheese that is aged for 2-3 months at the Bellwether Farms in Sonoma County in California. This gourmet Pecorino cheese contains whole peppercorns distributed throughout the cheese, very much so asl the Italian Pecorino Pepato.
Because of the looks, this cheese is a great addition to your cheese board, and will also do very nicely in a salad or a pasta sauce.
We sell this cheese as a 3 lbs wheel, half a wheel or in quarter wheel pieces of 12 ounces....
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Petit Agour
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The Petit Agour is a pure sheep's/ewe's milk cheese 'Pur Brebis' and a winner of two gold medals at the Paris Salon de L'Agriculture.
This gourmet cheese is matured for 3 months and is semi hard in consistency. The flavor is mildly nutty with sour hints and the texture is creamy with crumbs....
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Petit Camembert
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$11.98
Our Petit Camembert is made with pasteurized cow's milk and has a delicate salty taste and gets creamier over time. Camembert originated in French Normandy, but is nowadays made all over the world.
Esprit de Liberté's Camembert is petit because most Camemberts are slightly slightly larger, around 8 ounces and this one is just 5.3 ounces....
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Petit Livarot
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$15.75
Petit Livarot is the smaller version of the Livarot which is known as 'The Colonel' because of the five strips of raffia which are wrapped round it to stop bulging. It has a glossy orange-brown washed rind which can become very dark and rustic looking. The golden paste has little holes and is soft and springy.
The French gourmet Petit Livarot is clearly a cheese that cannot be missed because of the pungent aroma coming from the rind.
The aroma is farmyard like bacon and ammonia but the paste is more subtle, though still with meaty overtones. The taste is also full and strong with farmyard flavors and a strong, salty lemon tang which bites the tongue.
Similar cheeses are Epoisses, Munster ...
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Petit Soumaintrain
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The Petit Soumaintrain is a round farmhouse gourmet cheese made with raw cow's milk with a soft pate, uncooked and not pressed. The rind has an orange color that comes from continual washing in brine with Marc de Bourgogne added.
Maturation takes about 6 to 8 weeks, with continual washing. The final result is a rich cheese with a fascinating taste. This gourmet cheese has a powerful rich flavor with a pungent smell; the paste has a sweet taste with salty and creamy milk flavors; the texture of the paste is fine....
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Piave Vecchio
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$9.72
Piave Vecchio or Old Piave is made from the pasteurized cow's milk. The cheese is made by a cooperative in the Piave River Valley region of Belluno, Italy in 15-pound wheels with the name impressed in the rind.
This gourmet cheese has been aged for about 10 months and has a dense texture and butterscotch aroma and flavor that resembles a young Parmigiano Regiano....
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Pierre Robert
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$12.97
Pierre Robert is made with pasteurized cow's milk enriched with cream. The soft paste is almost mousse like and the rind formed from white mould.
This cheese ripens in about 3 weeks to a perfect mild buttery texture with a tangy bite not often found in this style of cheese. This cheese can be served throughout the year.
This cheese is made in Brie-country Ile-de-France...
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Pont l'Eveque
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$15.72
Pont l'Évêque is made in a distinctive square shape which is achieved by cutting the curds into blocks rather than into small pieces or grains. One block makes one cheese. They are drained and placed in fat square molds. After dry-salting, the cheeses are ripened in humid cellars.
This pungent French gourmet cheese is still made on the farms of the Pays d'Auge in Normandy just as it has been for centuries.
The maturing cheeses are washed with brine to give a light tan-colored rind which develops the characteristic pungency of the cheese. Indeed the aroma is strong enough to qualify the cheese for the top ten most pungent French cheeses, but it should not be so strong that it is unpleasant....
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Port Salut
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Port Salut is a traditional monastery cheese and is also known as Saint Paulin. Port Salut is a creamy, semi-soft cheese made from cow's milk. It usually has a wheel-shape. The thin, washed rind is smooth and leathery. It ranges in color from pale yellow to bright mandarin orange.
It was the first French cheese produced from pasteurized milk. We cut and wrap this cheese in wedges of 8 ounces and 1 pound....
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Pouligny St Pierre
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Pouligny St Pierre is a traditional, creamy, French gourmet cheese made from goat's milk with a natural rind. The cheese is often known as the pyramid, because of its shape.
The cheese is made from alpine goat’s milk, perfumed by the heather and herbs of the moor lands. It is soft, wrinkled and ivory-colored. As it ages and dries, the rind becomes reddish-orange, providing a magnificent contrast to the firm, pure white, slightly grainy interior. The time of maturation is approximately 5 weeks.
The taste has a rarefied sour savor, followed by a salty flavor which turns to a sweetness nuttiness. The pate is remarkable white with a fine texture, moist and soft.
Similar cheeses are Crottin de...
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Prima Donna
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Prima Donna maturo (extra matured) does not only have a distinct ruby-red label, its taste is full bodied as a high quality extra matured cheese should be. The Prima Donna is made according to an authentic domestic recipe.
Maturing Prima Donna maturo is a trade of its own. Carefully and in a modern way, the trade of maturing cheese is performed to perfection. The cheese gets all time, piece and quiet to mature into a special cheese with a spicy and somewhat sweet flavor.
The cheese is excellent on a sandwich, in soups or sauces or as a snack with a glass of red wine. A great alternative among the Dutch matured cheeses.
We cut and pack this cheese in wedges of 8 ounces and 1 pound....
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Provolone extra sharp
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$9.80
Provolone originally comes from the south of Italy but is nowadays produced in several regions of North Italy and no kitchen is likely to be without it. The cheese is sold in various shapes, melon-or pear-shaped, salami-shaped, bottle shaped or a truncated cone. The weight may vary per shape. BelGioioso imports Extra Sharp Provolone from Italy in large salami-shaped cheeses.
The cheese is made from pasteurized cow's milk that is cooked and shaped and salted in brine and hung up to dry. Some cheeses are sold as young as two months, but six months or more is a more usual maturation period. This Provolone is aged for 12 months and has a sharp, distinct flavor that you may be looking for.
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P'tit Basque
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P'tit Basque is a French sheep's milk cheese that has been around for only a little longer than 10 years; since 1997. P'tit Basque is sometimes compared to a Manchego, the great Spanish sheep cheese, but the similarities seem to limited to the rinds basket-weave markings.
P'tit Basque, indeed a small cheese compared with its famous French cousin Ossau-Iraty, weighs only 1.5 pounds. This cheese is made with pasteurized sheep's milk, has a semi-soft, moist and pale interior. The cheese's aroma is that of brown butter and caramel.
The flavor is creamy and sweet with some saltiness, much softer than the Manchego or the Ossau-Iraty.
We sell this cheese as an entire wheel of 1.5 pounds and cut ...
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Purple Haze
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$5.50
Purple Haze is one of the small fresh goat cheeses from Cyprus Grove in Northern California. The artisanal cheese is made in 3-inch round disks, and is flavored with wild fennel pollen and lavender; a combination that reminds you of the French Provence.
The cheese has a smooth, creamy texture and a unique flavor that will be appreciated by many. Each disk weighs about 4 ounces.
Purple Haze was a winner of an award during the 25th Annual Conference of the American Cheese Society....
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