This cheese makes me want to get up in the morning...
Kinsman Ridge is clearly inspired by the French tommes. When I eat this cheese, I feel like I'm tasting French cheese the way that it's supposed to taste. I love my Frenchies...and part of me always feels like it doesn't taste the way it could because when I eat it at home, it's already had to cross thousands of miles to get to me in the landlocked Midwest.
I gave a sample to my bashful, young FNG cheese monger (who has much potential) and I said to him "Please...sell this by saying "this is a sexy cheese!" He blushed, but my enthusiasm for cultured milk products eventually wins everyone over, and he liked the cheese as much as I did by the end of the day. Need I say...we sold out. When it's gone, it's gone....we'll have something else delicious next week!
Stay cheesy out there!