fig + honey
~ it's been a pleasure ~
After four (delicious) years, fig + honey is hanging up our cheese slicers.
Courtney would like to extend a big thank you to all the customers we've serviced over the years. It was truly a pleasure to be a part of so many celebrations, weddings, and holidays, and to come up with so many fabulous cheese puns. And remember, the best things in life are brie!
(couldn't end it without one. it's the law).
October Box
sweet + savory!
Point Reyes TomaRashi Cheese
Toma (in Italian, toma means "cheese made by the farmer himself”) has a creamy, buttery flavor with a grassy tang on the finish. Point Reyes’s California version of Toma is an all natural, pasteurized, semi-hard, table cheese with a natural rind. Rich and buttery, the master cheesemakers at Point Reyes have added Shichimi Togarashi to create a fascinating nutty, umami flavor with a slight touch of heat and citrus. The result is a fun, full flavored cheese with Japanese spices such as chili flakes, nigella, chili powder, orange peel, ginger powder and nori sprinkled generously throughout the cheese. The combination of a traditional farmhouse cheese with spicy seasoning creates a delightful fusion of flavors from both the Western and Japanese culinary traditions.
Montasio Cheese
Montasio is a pasture-terraced mountain located to the northeast of Venice in the Friuli-Venezia region of Italy. The cheese Montasio was originally made by the monks who occupied the monastery that owned those pastures in the thirteenth century. Today, the cheese is a DOC cheese, which means its properties and production are protected by law. Montasio can now be made legally in all of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and parts of Veneto. Made in large wheels, the flavor of this cheese is nutty, and slightly fruity. Since the mountain milk from which Montasio is made is high in butterfat, the cheese has a richer flavor with hints of butterscotch.
Marieke Gouda
Award-winning cheesemaker, Marieke Penterman, celebrates her Dutch heritage with this flavored Gouda. She and her team handcraft each wheel using herbs and seeds gathered in the Netherlands. Premium, raw, cow’s milk from her family farm provides each wheel of cheese with the exceptional flavor and texture you’ve grown to expect from Holland’s Family Cheese. Sweet and nutty with flavor notes reminiscent of maple syrup. Enjoy this cheese with toasted almonds, maple oat bread, dark rum or amber beer. Foenegreek, also spelled Fenugreek, is a spice that has a unique maple sweetness, with notes of curry or aged sherry wine on the finish.
Gjetost
A Norwegian breakfast cheese, Gjetost packs a unique sweetness. Gjetost, also known as Brunost, is sweet like caramel and has a dense and rich texture. This fudge-like cheese is formed into rind-less cylinders and is best when sliced wafer thin and enjoyed on toast or fruit. Made from a blend of pasteurized goat and cow milk that’s aged 1-2 months. The caramelized goat whey gives this cheese a sweet and savory taste that's truly one of a kind.
Bellavitano Espresso Cheese
A Sartori-family original, the Bellavitano cheese is inspired by traditional, Italian farmstead cheese. Unique to Wisconsin, Bellavitano cheese features a rich and creamy texture with a great, crave-able taste reminiscent of an aged, premium Wisconsin Cheddar cheese balanced by a full-flavored Parmesan. This Bellavitano cheese is then hand-rubbed with freshly roasted espresso, creating a truly unique flavor delicious for breakfast, dessert, or whenever your taste buds desire! The combination of Wisconsin Cheddar cheese and Parmesan give this Bellavitano cheese a terrific texture, somewhere between creamy and rich and crunchy and granular.