Coeur du Berry is available plain or ash-covered, as shown above.
February 2007
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Heart-Shaped Cheeses
The Perfect Cheese For Valentine’s Day
CAPSULE REPORT: For Valentine’s Day, most cheesemongers offer heart-shaped cheeses. Whether for your Significant Other or your family, they are certain to delight. Make it an annual tradition.
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, many cheese-lovers make the traditional Coeur à la Crème. But if you’d rather assemble a plate of delicious heart-shaped cheeses for your dinner, head to the best cheese store in town. They’re certain to bring in a few heart-shaped delights for the big day. There are dozens of options from coast to coast: Our selection comes from Zabar’s in New York City and is available online at Zabars.com. Each is different, so they can be enjoyed together on a cheese plate.
Serve the cheeses with thin slices of baguette and decorate the plate with fresh raspberries and strawberries, dried red cherries or cranberries.
Fresh Chevre:
Coeur du Berry
“Get fresh” with this fresh goat cheese from France. Young and tangy from the venerable Fromagerie Jacquin in France, this cheese is available plain or ash-covered (photo top left).
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Aged Chevre:
Coach Farm Aged Chevre
This semi-soft, bloomy-rinded goat cheese is made in Dutchess County, New York. The cheese is creamy and lightly lemony, with a little mineral tang from the bloomy rind.
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Aged Chevre:
Le Coeur d’Alvignac
A demure goat’s milk cheese made in Alvignac, France, which is the southwest area of the country in the Midi-Pyrenees region. As it matures, the texture firms up and the flavor deepens to a refreshing piquancy. The rind is thin and edible.
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Cupid’s Camembert
Old Chatham Sheepherding Company
From New York’s Hudson Valley, this cheese mixture of sheep’s and cow’s milk Camembert is just the right size to share with your honey. A bloomy-rinded cheese, it will mix well on the cheese plate with the goat cheeses.
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