English Cheeses--need help

[not2late]

I love cheese. Locally, I can get imported Cheshire, Stilton, and "5 counties". I recently found a website that will sell English cheeses. I have always wanted to try Wensleydale ever since I read James Herriot's description of it in his books.

Any other cheese recommendations?

[Richt]

British cheeses are a little boring to be perfectly honest, for the better cheese you should go for french.

Other british ones that you havent listed are -

Double Gloucester and Red Leicester. These two are simiar to cheddar but are orangey / red. Not really that tasty.
Or the is Cheshire cheese which is similar in texture to wensleydale, quite crumbly.

There are others, maybe Brian or Ellizien could help out.

Rich

[Elizellen]

Here is one site reviewing a book about English cheeses, with quite a lot of info about them and loads of cheeses mentioned I have never heard of - let alone tasted!!
http://www.forbes.com/2003/02/12/cx_cr_0212feat.html
Here is a great quote too

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be over sophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.
--Clifton Fadiman

and another site with descriptions http://englishculture.allinfoabout.c...es/cheese.html

[Miss Phode]

I don't mean to hijack the thread, but it's 6:00 p.m., and I'm still in the office, in fact, I'll probably be here several more hours, but...I brought some pepperoni and creamy gorgonzola as a snack to hold me over until I can go home for dinner. Let me tell you, this Gorgonzola is awsome, but it stinks to high heaven. It's a good thing everyone else in the building has gone home for the night, because it smells like someone/something died.

Good luck with your cheese hunt

[big_bad_john]

Bite your tongue richt! English cheese boring!!! Outrageous!

I'll put a link up to one of my favourite shops here in London...Make sure you take a look if you live in London...I also think they do mail order too.

http://www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk

[Richt]

Originally Posted by big_bad_john

Bite your tongue richt! English cheese boring!!! Outrageous!

I'll put a link up to one of my favourite shops here in London...Make sure you take a look if you live in London...I also think they do mail order too.

http://www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk

.

Personally I prefer Brie or Camembert! Not english

omg I have never met cheese I did not love
cheese is the history of the place it comes from not just the taste...there are great cheeses made in every country ..and England has some of the greatest..but again it is not just the flavor ....

I am barging in but I saw cheese and lost my mind...

it is my favorite food

ok one more thing about cheese..it is kind of like wine ..when you understand all the flavors and why they are there ..it tastes so much differant ....

ok I am done ..thanks for putting up with my outburst....

Originally Posted by not2late

I love cheese. Locally, I can get imported Cheshire, Stilton, and "5 counties". I recently found a website that will sell English cheeses. I have always wanted to try Wensleydale ever since I read James Herriot's description of it in his books.

Any other cheese recommendations?

I loved reading that too Megs

I find that I have had good luck just working my way through with some guidance from a reputable vender ....I just ask for an explanation and a taste ..sometimes when it is offered like that the whole flavor comes through during the conversation.....pungent cheese is really fun like that and the English have some great pungent ones too ask for tastes and lessons ..it like wine for me as well I always think I will remember the one I like ..but then there is a new one to try next time!
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I love cheese

[not2late]

Thanks.

I love cheese. So I don't mind trying them out. I especially like trying those "artisanal" or traditional cheeses and traditional foods just to see how they are. A few years ago, I got a hold of imported Double Cream and Clotted Cream---lemme tell ya, I could happily eat a vat of either!