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Abbaye de Belloc is a sheep's milk cheese developed in the 1960s by Benedictine monks in the French Pyrenees. Until about a decade ago, the monks made and aged the cheese in their abbey, using raw ...

Inspired by her Basque heritage, Marcia Barinaga abandoned a career as a science writer several years ago to make farmstead sheep cheese in West Marin. In 2001, she and her husband, Corey Goodman, ...

Indeed I do. It’s a semi-hard, French cheese with an incomparable taste and texture, the latter enhanced by a machine designed specifically to shave it into feathery, curly ribbons. Subscribe to the ...