{"id":12599,"date":"2014-08-07T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=12599"},"modified":"2014-08-07T08:06:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T12:06:28","slug":"alpine-appreciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpine Appreciation"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s no secret that Central France does one hell of a PR job, convincing us all that their bloomy products are some of the top cheeses in the world. And they wouldn’t be wrong<\/a>. But before we find ourselves sucked into the region’s publicity vortex, ready to crown Brie<\/a> as king, let’s resist such hyperbole and take a trip Eastward to Jura, where strong, sturdy, and slightly less flashy Comt\u00e9<\/a> is produced. While we’re at it, let’s hop the border to Switzerland, and reconsider the unique and understated qualities of some of our favorite Alpine cheeses.<\/p>\n

Alpine cheeses<\/a> refer to cheese from the mountainous borders between France, Switzerland, Austria, and Italy and include such varieties as Appenzeller<\/a>, Gruyere<\/a>, Comte<\/a>, Abondance<\/a>, and Emmentaler<\/a>. Alpine cheeses are generally made from raw or heated cow’s milk, are semi-firm to hard in consistency, and are aged in huge wheels that weigh upwards of twenty pounds.<\/p>\n

Though Alpine-style cheeses produced elsewhere can be made to mimic the appearance and consistency of certain Alpine cheeses (that sweet, slightly gummy, hole-freckled, generically-named “Swiss” cheese you can buy in slices at the supermarket is modeled after Emmentaler<\/a>), true Alpine cheeses gain their flavor from their native land. The cows feed on grasses and wildflowers native to the region that give their milk a distinct floral flavor nearly impossible to reproduce. For example, we can attribute the subtle flavor fluctuations of Comt\u00e9<\/a> to the specific time and place within the region where in was produced. As The Kitchn explains:<\/p>\n

…each round of cheese has a very distinct terroir<\/em> \u2014 that certain stamp of flavors and aromas that marks it as coming from a very particular place. Furthermore, the milk is delivered to the cheese maker daily and has to be used immediately, so cheeses also get a seasonal stamp. Summer Comt\u00e9 and winter Comt\u00e9, Comt\u00e9 from the mountains and Comt\u00e9 from the plains \u2014 each will be different and no two wedges will be quite the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you’re a home cook (or a chef!), it’s worth getting to know Alpine cheeses — they’re wildly versatile in the kitchen. While their firm consistency and deep, nutty taste is wonderful experienced straight-up, the cheeses also respond well to melting, as in fondue<\/a> or between the slices of a grilled cheese.<\/p>\n

So while it’s always fun to seek out the newest, hottest starlet in the cheese scene, don’t overlook your dependable, high-quality Alpine cheeses. They may be bred on mountain tops, but they’re certainly not over-the-hill.  <\/p>\n

 <\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

High-quality, nuanced, and versatile, The Alpines are a family of cheeses worth getting to know<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":9077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"coauthors":[619],"class_list":["post-12599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cheese-bites"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAlpine Appreciation - culture: the word on cheese<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"High-quality, nuanced, and versatile, The Alpines are a family of cheeses worth getting to know.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alpine Appreciation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"High-quality, nuanced, and versatile, The Alpines are a family of cheeses worth getting to know.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"culture: the word on cheese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-08-07T12:00:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-08-07T12:06:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Chase-Morgan-Alpine-Cabin-Cow-750x368.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"368\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Amanda Minoff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Amanda Minoff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/\",\"name\":\"Alpine Appreciation - culture: the word on cheese\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Chase-Morgan-Alpine-Cabin-Cow-750x368.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-08-07T12:00:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-08-07T12:06:28+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#\/schema\/person\/83cc961a2ed23502a767692b790c22e7\"},\"description\":\"High-quality, nuanced, and versatile, The Alpines are a family of cheeses worth getting to know.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Chase-Morgan-Alpine-Cabin-Cow-750x368.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Chase-Morgan-Alpine-Cabin-Cow-750x368.jpg\",\"width\":750,\"height\":368,\"caption\":\"Image of a farm house on an Alpine mountain with a cow and a goat in front\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Cheese Bites\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/category\/cheese-bites\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Alpine Appreciation\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/\",\"name\":\"culture: the word on cheese\",\"description\":\"Culture, America's magazine for cheese lovers, delivers stories about cheeses, cheesemakers, travel to gorgeous cheese regions, and practical tips on buying, presenting, and cooking with cheese.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#\/schema\/person\/83cc961a2ed23502a767692b790c22e7\",\"name\":\"Amanda Minoff\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/a710644aa42451fa8332b8456a87e3a4\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/385034_4475801489275_1882306315_n-96x96.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/385034_4475801489275_1882306315_n-96x96.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Amanda Minoff\"},\"description\":\"Amanda graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine with a degree in English Literature and Art History. She is a reader and writer of fiction and loves cheese that tells a good story.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/coringtheapple.wordpress.com\/\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/author\/amanda-minoff\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Alpine Appreciation - culture: the word on cheese","description":"High-quality, nuanced, and versatile, The Alpines are a family of cheeses worth getting to know.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Alpine Appreciation","og_description":"High-quality, nuanced, and versatile, The Alpines are a family of cheeses worth getting to know.","og_url":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/","og_site_name":"culture: the word on cheese","article_published_time":"2014-08-07T12:00:37+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-08-07T12:06:28+00:00","og_image":[{"width":750,"height":368,"url":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Chase-Morgan-Alpine-Cabin-Cow-750x368.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Amanda Minoff","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Amanda Minoff","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/","url":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/","name":"Alpine Appreciation - culture: the word on cheese","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Chase-Morgan-Alpine-Cabin-Cow-750x368.jpg","datePublished":"2014-08-07T12:00:37+00:00","dateModified":"2014-08-07T12:06:28+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#\/schema\/person\/83cc961a2ed23502a767692b790c22e7"},"description":"High-quality, nuanced, and versatile, The Alpines are a family of cheeses worth getting to know.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Chase-Morgan-Alpine-Cabin-Cow-750x368.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Chase-Morgan-Alpine-Cabin-Cow-750x368.jpg","width":750,"height":368,"caption":"Image of a farm house on an Alpine mountain with a cow and a goat in front"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/alpine-appreciation\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Cheese Bites","item":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/category\/cheese-bites\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Alpine Appreciation"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#website","url":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/","name":"culture: the word on cheese","description":"Culture, America's magazine for cheese lovers, delivers stories about cheeses, cheesemakers, travel to gorgeous cheese regions, and practical tips on buying, presenting, and cooking with cheese.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#\/schema\/person\/83cc961a2ed23502a767692b790c22e7","name":"Amanda Minoff","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/a710644aa42451fa8332b8456a87e3a4","url":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/385034_4475801489275_1882306315_n-96x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/385034_4475801489275_1882306315_n-96x96.jpg","caption":"Amanda Minoff"},"description":"Amanda graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine with a degree in English Literature and Art History. She is a reader and writer of fiction and loves cheese that tells a good story.","sameAs":["http:\/\/coringtheapple.wordpress.com\/"],"url":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/author\/amanda-minoff\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12599"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}