The independent guide to Bavarian cheese in America
Before Cambozola, before Rougette — there was a camembert in a tin, and it smelled faintly of mushrooms. In 1908 Julius Hirschle’s camembert gave the company its name. This tin…
The most famous smelly cheese in the world is a Bavarian immigrant. Limburger was born in the Duchy of Limburg — the Herve area of what is now Belgium, where…
Tilsiter is named for a town that no longer exists in the country that named it. Created in the mid-19th century by Prussian-Swiss settlers in Tilsit, East Prussia — today…
There is a cheese in Bavaria that was patented by a king, named for the drink it demands, and is now made by exactly one dairy. Its milk comes from…
“Butter cheese” is a promise, and this one keeps it. Butterkäse is the mild, creamy, endlessly meltable semi-soft cheese that Germany invented in 1928 by borrowing an Italian idea —…