We mentioned Nice Things Handmade in a post before about their fabulous beer cozies. We failed to mention that while we were there, we noticed these amazing paintings of cheese! They’re painted by local artist, Mike Geno and he has a show tomorrow for First Friday. Mike Geno is an adjunct faculty member at Moore [...]
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Mike Geno’s Cheese Paintings Here For Your First Friday Viewing Pleasure!
Aired February 2nd, 2012 on Cheese.1 CommentGrocery Store Item Of The Week: Rogue River Blue Cheese
Aired February 1st, 2012 on Cheese.0 CommentsThis marvelously soft and creamy, yet crumbly Rogue River Blue is wrapped in grape leaves and aged in a style similar to Roquefort. The cheese won the American Cheese Society‘s “Best In Show” award in 2009 and 2011, and it’s back! It has hints of hazelnut, berries, woodsy pine, morels and pear. Each grape leaf [...]
Dept. Of Questionable Headlines: “Kraft Creams Cadbury For New Philadelphia Spread”
Aired January 27th, 2012 on Cheese and Chocolate.1 CommentOver in England, Philadelphia Cream Cheese (which has no connection to the city other than bearing our name) will be combining with Cadbury (both owned by Kraft) to create a Nutella-like spread. A similar product is already on shelves in Italy and Germany, and there’s one with the same general idea available in America, though [...]
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Hey Everybody, It’s National Cheese Lover’s Day!
Aired January 20th, 2012 on Cheese, Events and Holidays.0 CommentsWhen it comes to made up food holidays, few encapsulate our feelings more than National Cheese Lover’s Day (to the lactose-intolerant, we feel for you). To celebrate this beautiful day, DiBruno Bros. is offering 25% off all cheese and cheese plates. That’s right, we said all. So this is your chance to grab your favorite [...]
Philadelphia Cream Cheese Better Than Generics, But Barely Distinguishable
Aired January 17th, 2012 on Cheese.2 CommentsAt least according to the people over at Huffington Post, which did a blind taste test involving 24 editors. The results of their taste test were as follows: >>>50 percent were able to identify Philadelphia cream cheese from the generic cream cheese brand. >>>57 percent preferred Philadelphia to the generic brand. That’s barely a difference. [...]
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Madame Fromage’s Cheese Ball: A Veritable Feast Of Cheese And Inevitable Jay-Z References
Aired January 10th, 2012 on Cheese, Events and Food Bloggers.0 CommentsBig pimpin’! Spendin’ cheese! Tenaya Darlington leads a double life: By day, she’s an Associate Professor, Department of English of Saint Joseph’s University (note to fellow alums: THE HAWK WILL NEVER DIE!), but by night, she is Madame Fromage, quite possibly the most diligent, astute and enthusiastic cheese blogger in America. (That’s right, we just [...]
Presumptuous Noodle Pops Up In Love Park
Aired November 22nd, 2011 on Cheese, Love and Uncategorized.0 CommentsA noodle, which seems to have a pretty high opinion of itself, popped up at Love Park today. According to The Inquirer, the sculpture is an advertisement for Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, whose slogan is “You know you love it.” As the Inky says, “The Fairmount Park Commission did a promotional deal with Kraft to [...]
Phoodie Holiday Gift Idea #1: DiBruno Bros. Gift Basket
Aired November 16th, 2011 on Cheese and video.0 CommentsLook, how can you not love most of everything that comes from DiBruno Bros.? We’re not sure it’s possible. So by giving this gift, not only do you not have to worry about the recipient liking it or not, but you also look like a genius. And, you know, maybe pick something up for yourself [...]
Dept. Of Things We Could Never Do Ourselves: DiBruno Bros. Handmade Burrata
Aired October 12th, 2011 on Cheese, Uncategorized and video.0 CommentsThe cheese kings over at Di Bruno Bros. aren’t satisfied with just serving an selling cheeses, they like to make them too. In the video above, DiBruno Bros. VP Emilio Mignucci shows how Burrata is made to order at the DiBruno warehouse in South Philadelphia. And stuff like this, while we would love to be [...]
DiBruno Bros.’ Goat And Beer Event Looked Pretty Awesome
Aired October 5th, 2011 on Beer, Cheese, Events and Uncategorized.0 CommentsBack on September 20, DiBruno Bros. hosted The Brewer, The Farmer, The Chef, And The Goat at their Rittenhouse Square location (1730 Chestnut Street) featuring Stoudt’s Brewery and some great goat dishes cooked up by DiBruno Bros.’ Rob Sidor. Also on hand was farmer Carla Growney , whose New Jersey farm provided the animals for [...]
