I'll be sure to report back after the tasting. I love a good stinky cheese. I'd prob say it was more aromatic than stinky - a more positive description. When it comes to room temp is it runny or will it hold its form? ( Assuming I cut cracker sized portions. )

Mine was fairly runny, but different from a brie. It oozed out and changed shape, but when trying to pull it away from the rest of the round, it would stretch out almost like a good hot pizza not wanting to let go. I ate it on a cracker, but I didn't "load" several crackers and then eat. I loaded a cracker, ate a cracker, etc.....

It won't hold it's shape, but it should still be doable with a cracker as long as there's not enough cheese on the cracker to engulf the cracker.

That cheese does look spectacular. They have it at Whole Foods? Gotta try it.

I ordered rennet for our Christmas cheese making just yesterday. Next weekend I'll be making Halloumi again. The family has come to expect it.

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Waitrose in England stock it @£6.00 for 250 grams. It is apparently strength 6.

When we're in France, my wife likes to say that the collection of old, stinky cheese I carry around from day to day smells like a baby diaper :)

I spend waaay too much money here: Venissimo Cheese


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God, I love good cheese.

I am a fan of Tunworth, a camembert-like cheese from, I think, Hampshire. Also Gubbeen, an Irish cheese. Not to mention a million more, like Hoch Y Bring, which is rather hard to find, and etc. etc. etc.

Got Tunworth for the first time from the Neal's Yard shop in Borough Market in London and brought it home with me, but you can get it in the US. Zingerman's carries it. I can thank Zingerman's for most of what I know about cheese and what I like and why, thanks to ten years of living in Detroit and visiting it regularly and frequently, and tasting at least two cheeses I've never had on every visit over the last 17 years.

The cheese cooler in even an ordinary supermarket in a small French city is like the cured-meat section of the same sort of store anywhere in Spain, is like walking into the best imported-food stores in the US.

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Here in Houston, we have a shop (I haven't been, but will probably soon) called Houston Dairymaids. It's almost entirely American made cheeses. Other than that, I think we are stuck with a few grocery stores that have big selections.

I'd love to go to a real cheese mongers shop or a shop in Europe. I'm pretty sure I'd be fairly happy on a cheese diet.

Tried it tonight and it was excellent! Surprisingly mild considering the pungent aroma. Wife liked it too thinking she would not. Great recommendation! Thanks! Have your tried Cambozola? Brie/ Blue Cheese blend - great on crackers and burgers.

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Here was our cheese plate for tonight's dinner. Starting at 12 o'clock moving clockwise: Epoisses, Granny Smith Apples, Gouda, Brie and Prosciutto

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I got half a wheel and a fresh baguette today at my local cheese shop, Formaggio Kitchen, a place that makes rebuilding a 911 motor seem cheap. It was good. I'm going to let it sit out for a day and see if it opens up a little.

Excellent, I'm glad you liked it. I hate it when I love something, rave about it, and then someone tries it and hates it.

Yes, I love Cambozola. There's an Italian restaurant in the neighborhood that had some cambazola on an appetizer plater of some sort, so I looked it up and got some. I love blue cheeses and soft cheeses, so what could be better than soft, blue cheeses.

That tray looks yummy. I like Prosciutto, but if they have it, we usually get capicola instead.