Mrs. TheyComeWithCheese made a pot of Broccoli Cheddar soup for lunch today.  If the little cheeses leave some, I’ll post a picture.

Edit: They didn’t.

Alas, a blog has a post describing a coworker’s attempt to dissuade a string cheese thief.

Huffpo has a nice screed about America’s obsession with fake cheese.

Buffalo cheese wings and cheese soup and cheesy bread sticks and cheesy dipping sauce with a side order of cheesy fries and spicy cheese chips with cheese on top?

There’s a fun xtranormal video for you viewing pleasure.  Enjoy.

If you’re a goat, cow, or sheep dairy farmer in or around Sullivan County, New York, the NOFA-NY (Catskill/Hudson Region) and the Sullivan County Department of Economic Planning and Development wants you to know that there’s a mobile cheesemaking unit available for sale.

Mobile Cheesemaking Unit for Sale The County of Sullivan in New York is soliciting expressions of interest from prospective purchasers of the Mobile Cheesemaking Unit (MCU), a piece of property that is designed to be used for the production of cheese.

The unit was used by the Tonjes Farm to start their cheese business, but they’re built their own cheese cave, so the unit is now up for sale.

Behind the big red cow barn at Tonjes Farm in Callicoon, western Sullivan County, is what looks like a door into the hillside.  That door leads into Tim Tonjes’s cheese cave where he makes soft and aged cheeses, yogurts, buttermilk and kefir using the whole milk from his Holstein-Friesian cows. The steel-reinforced concrete structure is 15 feet underground with five feet of soil on the roof. It’s about 2,000 square feet in size and consists of a main cheesemaking room where Tonjes makes cheese, a cold-storage room and, at the back, an aging room.

Since we’re talking about yesterday’s cheese exploits, I might as well add that after lunch we hit the grocery store and among the spoils (should I refer to groceries as spoils? hmm…) were a big bag of cheddar, two small bags of “Mexican Blend” (Hello taco dinner!) , and one block of cream cheese.

Thought you ought to know.

A couple of weeks ago, we won a free-lunch-for-two at First Watch (another one of those corporate breakfast and lunch  places – see also Scrambler Marie’s, Sunny Side Cafe, etc.) as a door prize at our high school’s International Potluck Supper.  We finally got around to using it yesterday so naturally, I ordered this:

Cheese to the 5th Degree

Swiss, Havarti, Monterey Jack and Cheddar cheeses melted between grilled Parmesan-crusted sourdough bread.

Here’s a couple of pictures click on them to load up the originals.

You can’t make this stuff up. Well, maybe you can, but really…

The Irish Times is reporting:

THE DEPARTMENT of Agriculture has raised concerns with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) about a proposal to restrict the advertising of cheese to children on television.

Further reading produces this gem:

The Irish Farmers’ Association criticised the classification system cited in the report, which classifies cheddar cheese in the same bracket as french fries, biscuits, cakes, and pizzas, and deems it “less healthy” than diet coke.

Area Development Online shares news that

Glanbia Foods, a cheese manufacturer, will invest at least $10 million to build a new corporate headquarters and innovation center in Twin Falls, Idaho.

This is good news in this struggling economy of ours. Indeed, Glanbia’s CEO, Jeff Williams had this to say about it:

As we have grown, and as needs in the cheese market change, it was essential to address two critical items.

See the article for the rest of Jeff’s statement.

I have to admit that I’m a little weirded out by the idea that cheese is ‘Manufactured” but I’ll get over it.

WisBusiness.com reports that the Dairy Pricing Association is going to “donate 2,000 pounds of cheddar cheese to Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin.”

The donation to Second Harvest will be fifty 40-pound blocks of cheddar cheese. Once received, volunteers will split the blocks of cheese into two-pound, family-size portions that will be distributed through a network of partner agencies to thousands of individuals, families, children and seniors who struggle with hunger.

PanArmenian Net reports on Armenia’s annual cheese production, and it’s relationship with the Russia, The European Union, and the U.S.A.

According to Armenian producers, Armenia outputs 17 thous. tons of cheese yearly, of which 200-400 tons are exported. Over 25 sorts of cheese are produced in Armenia, such as chanakh, lori, suluguni etc.