If you’d like to add height to your cheese wedding cake why not add separators between each layer.

See more about how these separators work by clicking below.

It’s not all about cheese!  Sometimes Kathy and I have to eat other things too.

Click below to read more are some of the favourite places we have found to buy good food in North Yorkshire…

Christmas and cheese go hand in hand, and there simply isn’t a better way to finish off the Christmas meal than with a glass of Port and a chunk of tasty cheese, then just let the night slide in. 

I’d like to share with you my ideas of how to create a perfect Christmas cheeseboard.

Botton Village (and creamery) on the North Yorkshire Moors finally gets some recognition it deserves for the mighty fine Yorkshire cheeses it makes.

With interest reviving in food in the last twenty years, two particular industries in the UK have flourished: artisan cheese and craft beer.  And what better way to enjoy these two classic British foodstuffs, by sampling them together!

Cheese is often associated and matched to wine.  Yet beer’s naturally hoppiness and crispness can….

September 29th 1998.  10 days before the British Cheese Awards results are released.  Will Montgomery’s Cheddar win ‘Best Cheddar’ and ‘Best Traditional British Cheese’ for the third year on the trot. Here follows an account of the great cheddar robbery days before the winner was announced….

Details and an introduction into five of the best newly invented British Artisan cheeses from this year.  Including Baron Bigod, Cais Na Tire, Little Anne…

James Aldridge became a leading figure in the revival of specialist farmhouse cheese. It is thanks to these visionaries like him that unpasteurised farmhouse cheese was kept alive. They kick-started the revival in specialist cheese which is still flourishing today.

Read about James Aldridge’s story by clicking below.

For those of you wanting to buy a cheese wedding cake to help you celebrate your special day, you’ll want to choose cheeses that are important to you and are tasty too.  So how do you choose the perfect wedding cheese cake – read on for more details…

Contrary to popular belief, heart-shaped cheeses are not a recent invention for the Valentine’s Day bandwagon, but originated over 500 years ago. 

To read the story of heart-shaped cheeses, click below….

Part four –  the first few weeks..

Part four of the four-part series on how The Courtyard Dairy was created.  Click below to read more….

Part three – chilling it down.

Part three of the four-part series on how The Courtyard Dairy was created. Click below to read more….