Gorgonzola— Italy’s Classic Blue Cheese

Gorgonzola— Italy’s Classic Blue Cheese

“Claret, dear, not Coca-Cola, When you’re having Gorgonzola…” — William Cole, ‘What a Friend We Have in Cheeses’ Gorgonzola, designated as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) product since 1996, is a blue cheese produced in the northern Italian regions of Lombardy...
A Harvest Wine Dinner

A Harvest Wine Dinner

By Bob Lipinski The changing colors reflect the season of autumn, the activity of harvesting grapes to make wine. Large gondolas are filled to the brim as workers fastidiously cut the sugar-laden grape clusters from the vine. Then they are loaded onto trucks to the...
Stilton: England’s Famous Blue Cheese

Stilton: England’s Famous Blue Cheese

By Bob Lipinski Stilton is a world-famous blue cheese made in the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire, in England, from pasteurized cow’s milk. Stilton was first mentioned in print in 1724, when novelist Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) wrote about...

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