If you haven't already figured it out by this point, we are not totally unbiased cheesemongers. We have our favorites. We're generally more attracted to soft, creamy, and smelly cheeses than harder, waxier varieties. Of course, we'll experiment with hard cheeses for science, but we tend toward messy cheeses that we can play with. The first cheese we reviewed was a New York triple cream and today, we decided to revisit one of our favorite cheese types, this time a firmer triple cream from California that we picked up at Atwater's at Belvedere Square Market.
Mt. Tam is the most popular cheese from Cowgirl Creamery, an award-winning company based near San Francisco that started in the '90s making fresh cheeses such as cottage cheese and fromage blanc, but soon turned to aged varieties. Named after Mount Tamalpais, Mt Tam was its foray into soft-ripened cheese, and, remarkably, it's perhaps the creamery's best.
But this shit ain't cheap; it only comes in whole round and we paid $17 for a palm-size wheel weighing nearly 10 ounces. That's enough cheese to keep most people happy for a while; for us, maybe a week. But how can we resist cheese that looks like an adorable baby cake?
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