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In this recipe from Ren Behan, seasonal asparagus is paired with nutty Westcombe Cheddar, for a delicious spring tart. Ingredients300g fresh asparagus2 cloves garlic, peeled and bashed2 tbsp grated lemon zest300g shortcrust pastryFlour, for dustingOlive oil4 free-range eggs100ml double cream200g Westcombe CheddarSea salt and fresh...

Westcombe is farming in a way that benefits their cheese, milk, animals, and the health of their land. They have made many changes to their farming system and to their cheesemaking over the past few years. Our cheese care team and cheesemongers are beginning to note...

One of the main areas of focus when it comes to climate change activism is carbon emission and its impact on the environment. It has been well-documented that the agricultural industry, particularly dairy farming, has a significant impact on these emissions. A subject that seems to us to...

In their own words, the Specialist Cheesemakers Association (SCA) is an alliance of cheesemakers, retailers, wholesalers and others involved with artisan cheese, which was established to encourage excellence in cheesemaking. It provides a forum for members to exchange ideas and represents the interests of members...

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Our colleague Lydia shares this galette recipe as a quick and easy way to use Westcombe Cheddar. Serve with a green salad to create a more substantial lunch.The perfect leisurely meal to enjoy with your family! Ingredients: For the pastry: 150g cold butter, 300g self-raising...

What does it mean to make Cheddar today? For most of us, Cheddar is so familiar that it feels almost fixed—reliable, universal, and unchanging. But step back 150 years, and the picture looks very different: Cheddar was not one thing, but many. Every farmstead had...

Update: On 30th October, we learned that the Metropolitan Police made an arrest in connection with the theft. We are grateful for the progress they have made, and we will continue to support their investigation in any way we can. Original statement from Friday 25th October 2024: Neal’s...

Article originally published in The Telegraph 04/04/18. Washed rinds, ripening and robots: inside the wonderful world of aged British cheese Patrick McGuigan 4 April 2018  The maturing of comté and gruyere is an art form in France – but cheesemakers here are finally catching up CREDIT: Rii...

These savoury flapjacks combine cheddar and Marmite for an umami hit. A tasty savoury alternative to sweetened flapjacks.  Recipe courtesy of Olive Magazine   Ingredients85g unsalted butter60g Marmite, plus extra, if you like1 tbsp rapeseed oil2 large leeks, trimmed, washed and very finely sliced175g jumbo...

As part of Neal’s Yard Dairy’s ‘Women in Cheese’ focus, we set ourselves the challenge of creating Wikipedia pages for some of the prominent women working in British cheese. In this blog, Ellen Hunter, our events manager, tells the story of her search for information about the...

At Neal’s Yard Dairy, our mission is to improve British cheese. A major part of that mission is championing British styles like Cheshire, Lancashire, and Wensleydale. But we only stock a handful of cheeses with a protected designation of origin (PDO) label. Why? The short...

We receive lots of enquiries from farmers and non-farmers alike about resources available for those who wish to embark on the path of making their own cheese professionally. Here, our cheese buyer Bronwen Percival offers some guidance and advice for those who want to turn their passion for cheese into...

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably eaten a lot of Cheddar. It’s one of the most popular cheeses in the United Kingdom, accounting for about half of our national cheese consumption. But what is it, exactly?     “I think that’s a really difficult question, and that’s...

To better understand our producers and the cheeses we work closely with, our export and wholesale cheesemongers have each chosen a respected cheese to “adopt” and learn as much as they can about. Here we hear from Austin, who looks after our US export sales, about what he learned from the adopting Pitchfork Cheddar.   Pitchfork Cheddar is my “adopted cheese”. Being one of the first cheesemongers to sell Pitchfork...

Neal’s Yard Dairy, a leading distributor and retailer of British artisan cheese, has been the victim of a sophisticated fraud resulting in the loss of over £300,000 worth of clothbound Cheddar. The scheme involved a fraudulent buyer posing as a legitimate wholesale distributor for a...

My husband Juan and I love Mexican food and our store cupboard isn't complete without a stash of black beans, cumin, oregano and a strong hard cheese. We've been working our way round all of Neal's Yard Dairy's Cheddars and this time we used a...

Ah, spring. Flowers are blooming. Birds are chirping. And here at Neal’s Yard Dairy, we’re welcoming a fresh crop of seasonal cheeses.   Moussy, bright Brefu Bach. Creamy, light Yr Afr. We’ve waited for them all winter. By May, they’re finally back.   If you’re new (or...

Until July 2022, it was not possible for Neal's Yard Dairy, or anyone else, to sell British raw milk cheeses in Australia. After successfully changing the regulations that prohibited this, shipments of raw milk cheeses from Neal's Yard Dairy will soon be arriving in Australia....

Few flavours are as distinctive as that of blue cheese. You could attempt to describe it as spicy, savoury, or punchy, but it may be most accurate to opt simply for “blue.” According to our Technical Director, Bronwen Percival, "we often use the catch-all term...

To write a brief history of Cheddar cheese, it makes sense to start with a description of what Cheddar cheese is and how it came into being. Sadly, neither of these tasks is easy to accomplish. Despite being one of the most popular and widely-consumed...

Neal’s Yard Dairy does not offer medical advice on cheese and pregnancy: we can, however, share with our customers what we know about cheese. Women can still eat cheese during pregnancy, but should avoid soft, semi-soft and blue cheeses, which may contain Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium...

What are they?   Mites are microorganisms that are found everywhere. You are probably familiar with some common mites, such as dust mites. There are also two common groups of mites found on cheese: Tyrophagus and Acarus. These are typically soil-dwelling mites, they feed on fungi...

Our British territorial cheese counter, from Cheshire to Cotherstone The British cheese tradition is one of the finest in the world. For hundreds of years, family farms across England, Scotland, and Wales produced uniquely delicious wheels of cheese. Each region had its own style, and...