When you purchase cheese from Carlino’s, you may be asking yourself a series of questions. Why does their cheese taste so good? Where do they get their cheeses from? Why do the supermarkets’ and competitors’ cheeses taste inferior? This is because, unlike our competitors, we have chosen to stick to our roots and refrain from…
Nick Carlino led a group of foodies to Abruzzo, Italy, the birthplace of Mama Carlino and the place where the Carlino Family Story began. (To those who don’t know of Mama Carlino, she is the inspirational grandmother who began the homemade pastas, sauces and the freshest pastries and cookies that we traditionally still craft today)…
Did You Know? The world of cheese embraces the idea of the Red, White, and Blue. The Red is obvious with cheeses like English Red Windsor and Red Leicester, but the Red is also present in the wonderful Italian cheese Pecorino Rustico Red Pepper. This sheep’s milk cheese has a semi-soft consistency, typical of cheeses…
Did You Know? June…the perfect month for love and marriage…and cheese is all about both. Certain cheeses love a special accompaniment…sheep cheeses love honey; goat cheeses love the fig. Rich, soft-ripened cow cheeses (St. Andre, Prince LaFontaine) crave chocolate and hard cow cheeses love to be drizzled with extra virgin olive oil. The marriages are…
Did You Know? Hailing from Newton, Iowa, Maytag Blue Cheese is a World-Class Domestic. It is made from the milk of a prize-winning herd of Holstein cattle, a herd that was first established in 1919 by E.H Maytag, son of the founder of the famous appliance firm. By the 1930’s, time of the Great Depression,…
Did You Know? “April is the cruelest month…” according to T.S Elliot, especially if you can’t experience April in Paris. So we will be KIND and transport all of us to the sights and tastes of OOO-La-La Land. As we noted in past Newsletters, the extraordinary richness of French cheese making is rooted in France’s…