Gateway Cheese™:

Mozzarella

Each Gateway Cheese™ is a jumping-off point. It’s a cheese with specific flavor and texture associations, and it ushers you into a larger group of cheeses that share these qualities. The point of a Gateway Cheese™ is to take a common, familiar cheese and use it to discover less common, less familiar cheeses. Every Gateway Cheese™ introduces a spectrum of flavors, from approachable to intense, shared by all the cheeses in the group.

Flavor Spectrum

Milk
Approachable
Yogurt
Intermediate
Milky brine
Intense
Mozzarella
 is the gateway to:
Unaged and rindless (aka “fresh”) cheeses, all about the flavor of the milk from which they’re made, becoming increasingly intense thanks to salt.
Intensity
Cheese Type
Flavor
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
1
Cheese Type
Mozzarella
Flavor
Milk
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
2
Cheese Type
Ricotta
Flavor
Cooked Milk
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
3
Cheese Type
Petite Breakfast
Flavor
Salty Milk
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
4
Cheese Type
Halloumi
Flavor
More salt than milk
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
5
Cheese Type
Buffalo Mozzarella
Flavor
Gamy Milk
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
6
Cheese Type
Teleme
Flavor
Yogurt
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
7
Cheese Type
Fromage Blanc
Flavor
Citrus Tang
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
8
Cheese Type
Fresh Chevre
Flavor
Lemony
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
9
Cheese Type
Banon
Flavor
Tannic
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
10
Cheese Type
Feta
Flavor
All That, Plus Brine

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