there was never any cheese-making in Gouda. In the Middle Ages, Gouda acquired sole cheese-market rights, basically becoming the only city in the country where farmers could trade their cheese.

And goodness do they make cheese. The farm produces some 3,000 pounds a week. Visitors can watch the process through large ...

The stall at the Halifax Seaport Farmers' Market where Willem van den Hoek stood for decades to hawk his family's artisanal ...

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If you want to make a mac and ... After eating cheese for the better half of a month, the one fromage we kept coming back to (and buying more of) was a truffled Gouda, made with actual flecks ...

which encouraged farmers to make their own gouda, in the early 1980s. He'd been farming on the land that would eventually become Smith's Country Cheese since 1969, starting with just 20 heifers.