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Prairie Tomme
Green Dirt Farm
Weston, Missouri
Green Dirt Farm's Prairie
Tomme earned ird
Best of Show at the 2023
ACS and Best of Class in
its category at the 2023
USCCC, confirming its
bonafide crowd-pleaser
status. Resembling
Pyrenees-style sheep's milk
cheeses, Prairie Tomme's
smooth, compact paste
is rich on the palate. e
mottled, muted peach rind
with its signature sheep
stamp smells of petrichor
and grass: minerally
and sweet. ese earthy,
vegetal aromas highlight
herbaceous, pastoral flavors
and add dimension to
Prairie Tomme's signature
nutty notes of brown butter
and caramel. LS
PHOTO:
Jennifer
Silverberg
5Q's
Alimentias
Manzanares, Spain
is beauty was a hit
at the WCA, earning a
coveted Super Gold in
2022 and Gold in 2023.
In a unique treatment
that sets it apart from
other aged sheep's milk
cheeses from Spain,
5Q's is ripened for eight
months in Oloroso
sherry casks. Mature and
muscular in texture, this
is a full-bodied cheese
with an intoxicating
woodsy aroma and an
intensely fruity profile.
e flavors of the raw
milk used to make this
cheese concentrate with
age, resulting in mellow
barnyard undertones and
surprisingly delicate floral
and herbaceous notes. LS
PRAIRIE TOMME
