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Rogue River Blue is an American blue cheese produced by Rogue Creamery in Oregon. It’s notable for its unique flavor profile developed through aging in small-batch wheels and wrapping in Syrah grape leaves infused with pear brandy. This process contributes to a complex aroma and taste, earning it nu...
The Cobb Salad is a classic American salad originating from the Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood, California, around the 1930s. It is typically composed of chopped salad greens, chicken, bacon, hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes, avocado, and Roquefort or blue cheese. The ingredients are traditionally ar...
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Beloved American entree salad with strong restaurant reputation, satisfying composition, and broad mainstream popularity.
ui.x_scoring_methodologyBayley Hazen Blue is a distinctive American blue cheese crafted by Jasper Hill Farm of Vermont. The cheese utilizes cow’s milk and features a natural rind developed through careful aging. It's notable for its complex flavor profile—often described as creamy with notes of fruit and earth—and is appre...
Colston Bassett Stilton is an English blue cheese crafted at the Colston Bassett Dairy in Nottinghamshire. It’s renowned for its intensely complex flavor profile developed through a traditional cave-aging process using raw cow's milk. The cheese boasts a crumbly texture and a powerfully pungent arom...
Roquefort Carles is a renowned blue-cheese originating from France. Produced by artisan cheesemakers since 1928, it utilizes raw sheep’s milk and undergoes natural cave aging in Roquefort-sur-Soulzon. This process develops its distinctive flavor profile and creamy texture. It's favored by those seek...
Stichelton is a Nottinghamshire blue cheese crafted from cow’s milk. It stands out for its production using organic raw milk, offering a distinct flavor profile compared to traditionally made Blue Stilton. This cheese appeals to consumers seeking artisanal British cheeses and those interested in unp...
Kraftkar is a distinctive Norwegian blue cheese produced by Tingvollost dairy. This artisan cheese utilizes cow’s milk and is known for its strong flavor profile developed through traditional aging methods. Kraftkar was awarded “World's Best Cheese” at the 2016 World Cheese Awards, making it particu...
Cabrales is a distinctive blue-veined cheese produced in the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It’s notable for its unique production method involving mixed cow, goat, and sheep milk aged within naturally humid limestone caves. The aging process imparts a strong, pungent flavor and aroma valued by ch...
Roquefort Vernières is a French blue cheese crafted using sheep’s milk under Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) rules. Produced by Fromageries Vernières in Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, Aveyron, it represents a traditional method of aging within natural caves. This distinctive cheese appeals to those se...
Cropwell Bishop Stilton is an English blue cheese produced near Nottingham in the county of Nottinghamshire. The cheese’s distinctive flavor comes from using cow's milk and a traditional production method. It’s notable for its rich, earthy taste appreciated by those seeking authentic British cheeses...
Blue Stilton is a classic cow’s milk blue cheese originating from Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire. Its protected designation of origin ensures a distinctive flavor profile developed through centuries of tradition. It's particularly valued by food enthusiasts seeking authentic English...
Roquefort Le Vieux Berger is an artisan blue cheese crafted in Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, France. This PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) cheese utilizes sheep’s milk and undergoes traditional aging methods by a family affineur established in 1924. It offers a distinctively strong flavor profile appr...
Rogue Creamery Caveman Blue is an American artisan blue cheese produced by Rogue Creamery in Oregon. This distinctive cheese utilizes cow’s milk and undergoes a lengthy aging process resulting in a remarkably creamy texture and intensely flavored profile. Its robust taste makes it suitable for exper...
Hook’s Blue Paradise is an American artisan blue cheese crafted by Hook’s Cheese Company of Wisconsin. This double-cream cow-milk cheese stands out due to its remarkably mild flavor profile and exceptionally smooth texture. It's favored by those seeking a less assertive blue cheese experience, parti...
Rogue Creamery Echo Mountain Blue is an American artisan blue cheese produced in Oregon. It’s notable for its distinctive flavor developed through careful aging of cow's milk from local herds. The cheese offers a creamy texture and bold taste. It appeals to consumers seeking high-quality, traditiona...
Gorgonzola Piccante is a distinctive Italian blue cheese produced using cow’s milk under Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) standards. Its notable sharpness and crumbly texture arise from a longer aging process exceeding three months in the Lombardy region. This variety appeals to consumers seeki...
Roquefort is a distinctive blue-cheese produced exclusively from sheep’s milk in the Roquefort-sur-Soulzon region of southern France. Its aging process within natural caves imparts a strong, pungent flavor and aroma. This PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) cheese holds historical significance as...
Point Reyes Original Blue is a raw cow's milk blue cheese produced by the Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company in Marin County, California. Introduced in 2000, it was the creamery's inaugural product, made using milk sourced directly from the farm's closed herd of Holstein cows. The cheese is charac...
Crozier Blue is an artisanal Irish blue cheese made from pasteurized sheep's milk, produced by the Grubb family in County Tipperary. It serves as the sheep's milk counterpart to Cashel Blue, Ireland's original farmhouse blue cheese made from cow's milk. The cheese is distinguished by its firm, sligh...
Gorgonzola is an Italian blue-veined cheese made from cow's milk and named for the town of Gorgonzola near Milan. During production, selected molds develop blue or green veining and contribute a flavor that ranges from mild and creamy in younger dolce versions to firmer and sharper in piccante versi...
Roquefort Gabriel Coulet is a French producer of Roquefort, the protected blue cheese made from sheep's milk and matured in the natural caves of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon. The family business dates to 1872 and ages its cheeses in cellars connected to the Combalou limestone formation, where natural venti...
Old Chatham Ewe's Blue is an artisanal blue cheese produced in New York's Hudson Valley. It is crafted primarily from sheep's milk, which gives the cheese a dense texture and a rich, tangy flavor profile that is distinct from cow's milk blues. The cheese is manufactured by the Old Chatham Creamery,...
Maytag Blue is an artisanal cow's milk blue cheese produced by Maytag Dairy Farms in Newton, Iowa. The dairy was founded in 1919 by E.H. Maytag, and began producing the cheese in 1941 using a recipe developed by Iowa State University microbiologists. It is aged in hand-dug caves, resulting in a nota...
Bleu de Termignon is a rare, artisanal cow's milk blue cheese produced in the Vanoise massif of the French Alps. Unlike most modern blue cheeses, it is produced without the deliberate addition of Penicillium roqueforti spores. Instead, the cheese develops its characteristic blue veins naturally from...
Salt & Straw Pear & Blue Cheese is a bold, cheese-forward ice cream from Portland-based Salt & Straw, widely cited as one of the brand's most adventurous flavors and a benchmark of the savory ice cream movement in the US.
Why this score
Famous bold flavor with critical interest, but blue cheese profile is highly polarizing.
ui.x_scoring_methodologyRogue Creamery Smokey Blue is an artisan cow's milk blue cheese produced by the Rogue Creamery in Central Point, Oregon. The cheese is cold-smoked over hazelnut shells, a process that imparts a distinct smoky flavor to its creamy interior. It is recognized as the first commercially produced smoked b...
Cashel Blue is an artisan blue cheese produced from pasteurized cow's milk in County Tipperary, Ireland. Created in 1984 by Louis and Jane Grubb, it holds the distinction of being Ireland's first commercially successful farmhouse blue cheese. The cheese features a firm, creamy paste that softens as...
Picón Bejes-Tresviso is a blue cheese produced in the Picos de Europa mountain range of the Cantabria region in Spain. It holds a protected Denominación de Origen status and is traditionally crafted from a blend of cow, goat, and sheep milk. The cheese is cave-aged in natural limestone environments,...
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