CHEESE NOTES

High-res One of the cheeses of Easter weekend: Fiacco di Capra (pronounced Fee-ah-ko), a square-shaped, washed rind Italian cheese resembling a Taleggio and also hailing from the Lombardy region. But whereas Taleggio is a cow’s milk cheese, Fiacco is made with goats milk. With a creamy, velvety paste which oozes out of the rind as it warms — and an unusual buttery color for a goat cheese — this delectable cheese, like a Taleggio, sports a somewhat pungent aroma but a mild flavor, with perhaps a bit more tang and bite to the flavor betraying the goaty origins, salty up front, mellowing into mushroomy, meaty notes. Wonderful smeared on a chunk of baguette.  Purchased at Murrays (who also tipped me off to this cheese in a Tumblr post, thanks guys!)

One of the cheeses of Easter weekend: Fiacco di Capra (pronounced Fee-ah-ko), a square-shaped, washed rind Italian cheese resembling a Taleggio and also hailing from the Lombardy region. But whereas Taleggio is a cow’s milk cheese, Fiacco is made with goats milk.

With a creamy, velvety paste which oozes out of the rind as it warms — and an unusual buttery color for a goat cheese — this delectable cheese, like a Taleggio, sports a somewhat pungent aroma but a mild flavor, with perhaps a bit more tang and bite to the flavor betraying the goaty origins, salty up front, mellowing into mushroomy, meaty notes. Wonderful smeared on a chunk of baguette. 

Purchased at Murrays (who also tipped me off to this cheese in a Tumblr post, thanks guys!)

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    Washed rind cheeses are the best! Look at Époisses!
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