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How California's cheese trail avoided a meltdown


How California’s cheese trail avoided a meltdown
Ella Buchan
© Photograph by Angela DeCenzo
Among the offerings at Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese is the Original Blue. Point Reyes is one of several artisan dairies in Northern California known for producing hand-crafted cheeses.
I’m listening to Nikki Gruss as she recounts the history of Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese, located in a patchwork of green high above Tomales Bay, in Northern California’s Point Reyes National Seashore.
The farm’s lead hospitality coordinator, Gruss describes how the rye grass, seasoned by the marine air and Pacific coastal fog, influences the cheeses’ flavors before introducing me to “the girls” the farm’s herd of Holstein cows. Then, she leads me to hilltop hospitality center The Fork, where boards groan under bread and crackers, dollops of chutney, and fat wedges of creamy, blue-veined cheese. ....

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