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Vermont’s Finest: Thanksgiving Cheeses for 2014
Our top Thanksgiving cheese picks for 2014: Shelburne 2 Year Cheddar, Verano, Bayley Hazen Blue, and Sage Farm’s fresh goat cheese One of our favorite ways to celebrate Thanksgiving is with a round up...
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Specialty Wines for Everyone on Your List!
Our wine buyers’ top picks for the holidays! La Cigarrera Amontillado VOR, 2012 Domaine Comte Abbatucci “Cuvee Faustine” Rouge, 2005 CUNE “Contino” Rioja Reserva, and 1979 Kopke Colheita Port The...
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Asti Spumanti: Bubbling with Holiday Cheer
Asti Spumante and Panettone – A perfect pair! Why does food and wine matching seem so difficult, so fraught with opportunity to miss the mark? It’s simple really: we insist on reinventing the wheel,...
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Sampling Three Vintages from Domaine la Bouïssière Gigondas
Our three-pack of fantastic vintages from Domaine la Bouïssière Gigondas, France Brothers Gilles and Thierry Faravel make wine in some of the most weirdly beautiful geography in all of France: in...
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A Traditional Holiday Treat: Tiramisu
Tiramisu made with Donna Elvira Savoiardi If you haven’t seen the piles of panettone around the shop, you may not know that we recently received a large shipment of holiday treats from Italy. Along...
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Saving the Best for Last: Ruinart Champagne
Ruinart Champagnes on display at Formaggio Cambridge. We’ve long been enamored with grower Champagnes – those wonderful bubblies that are made and bottled by the very same people who cultivate and...
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The Color of Eggs: An Interview with Our Resident Egg-spert
A colorful array of Sweet Autumn Farm eggs (all from the same half dozen!)White, brown, blue, green; speckled, striped, solid, blushed; boiled, scrambled, fried, whipped — there are so many kinds of...
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Artisan Chocolate for Valentine’s Day – Share the Love
In preparation for Valentine’s Day, I painstakingly taste-tested several of the artisan chocolate bars sold at Formaggio Kitchen. Hard work indeed! When buying for myself, I gravitate toward the...
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Why We Love Beaujolais for the Holidays and You Should, Too
2015 Domaine Thillardon Chenas, 2016 Domaine Dupeuble Beaujolais You don’t have to know a lot about wine to enjoy it, but misconceptions can get in the way of widening our experience. Some I regularly...
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Italian Holiday Sweet Breads 101: Panettone, Pandolce, and Panforte
by Julie Cappellano At Formaggio Kitchen we prepare months in advance for the busy, festive holiday season by placing orders, stocking up on gift baskets and ribbons, and planning our holiday menus. By...
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