Gateway Cheese™:

Parmesan

Flavor

Approachable

Intense

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

Candied nuts

Approachable

Bourbon

Intermediate

Kombucha

Intense

Parmesan

is the gateway to:

Hard, grainy cheeses with nutty character, these guys start sweet and candied and wind up savory and acidic. It’s where aged Gouda shows up, so radically different from its moist, red- wax–covered little brother, and where I break down the merits and distinc- tions between American Parmesan and Italian Parmigiano-Reggiano.

Intensity

Cheese Type

Flavor