Subj : Cheese of the week
To   : ALL
From : JIM WELLER
Date : Sat Sep 03 2022 19:52:00

Armstrong B.C. is in the Okanagan basin (Canada's premier wine
country) just north of Okanagan Lake. It used to be home of
Armstrong Cheese.

The Village Cheese Company, owned by ex-employees, took over the
Armstrong cheese factory after the Armstrong Cheese company was sold
to Saputo (a Montreal based multi-national) and its cheese plant
shut down. Armstrong cheese is now merely a brand name of what has
become a mediocre Cheddar cheese, made who knows where.

Village Cheese make high quality cheeses including an aged raw milk
Cheddar which I sampled for the first time tonight. It is a hard,
dry, compact cheese, that can be sliced, shaved or grated, not at all
crumbly, with an intense Cheddar flavour. The flavour of the cheese
is highly pronounced because the cows are outdoors year round with a
diet of grass only: no hay or grain supplements. The texture isn't
standard though.  Well worth the premium price. I bought my sample
one day before the sell by date on the label at half price. My store
is so dumb that way: aged Cheddar is more expensive than young
Cheddar!



Cheers

Jim


.... What makes cheese so confidential we actually need cheese shredders?

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