Cheeselovers will have two great reasons to visit Sickles Market’s award-wining cheese department in October. First, Sickles Market will participate in a national American Cheese Celebration by offering daily deals on some of its most popular artisan and handmade cheeses, tastings and serving suggestions during October. These include selections from California, Iowa, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Wisconsin cheesemakers, representing some of the finest brands available.
And the second reason to visit the Sickles, One Harrison Avenue, Little Silver, is to meet our new, in-house Mozzarella cheesemaker. His name is Junior Mazzarella (yes, that’s correct), and since his recent arrival, Junior has been making and selling approximately 125 pounds of fresh mozzarella daily!Mazzarella, an airplane pilot who flew advertising banners, is known for his obsessive attention to detail and began making cheese in his home. He has since become a recognized professional mozzarella maker. Bob and Tori Sickles, representing the third and forth generations owners of the century-old specialty food market and garden center, say they added the cheesemaker to educate their consumers about cheesemaking and to further enhance the market’s role as curator of authentic, quality goods delivered with superior service.
As part of the American Cheese Society’s celebration of American-made cheeses, Sickles Market will feature a weekly selection of artisanal, regional, and farmhouse favorites made from a particular milk-type, all from North America. There will be tastings and preparation demonstrations throughout the month of October, where customers can savor the “best of the best” American cheeses and also save with special deals. It’s a good time to gather valuable ideas for all levels of holiday entertaining from lavish dinner parties to impromptu gatherings.
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“We like to support the American Cheese Society and its efforts to support all levels of groups involved in making great American cheeses,” explained Tori Sickles. “Educating our customers is one of our most important business practices. Adding an in-house cheesemaker illustrates our dedication to delivering American made, authentic products and a very special shopping experience to our customers,” she added.
So, here’s the lineup!
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Cow Milk - October 1-6, 2013
25% OFF
Milton Creamery (Iowa)
Prairie Breeze 3Cow Milk Week Specials
This American artisan cheese, made in the Midwest might surprise you! Prairie Breeze is a twist on a well-aged white Cheddar style cheese, aged a minimum of nine months and sweeter than your typical cheddar. This cheese is full of flavor, crumbly yet creamy with a little crunch from the calcium crystals developed during the aging process; try it on a panini, your favorite apple pie, paired with chocolate chip cookies and of course on its own!
10% OFF
Holland's Family Cheese (Wisconsin)
Marieke Gouda with Foenegreek
Cellars at Jasper Hill (Vermont)
Harbison
Uplands Farm Cheese Co. (Wisconsin)
Pleasant Ridge Reserve
Beehive Cheese Co. (Utah)
Barely Buzzed
Sheep Milk - October 7-13, 2013
25% OFF
Old Chatham Sheepherding Co. (New York)
Nancy's Hudson Valley Camembert
Tom and Nancy Clark have been making cheese since 1993, and their flock has now grown to be the largest sheep dairy farm in the country. Nancy's Camembert, named for Mrs. Clark is luscious, rich, and a little bit spicy at the finish. Although the cheese is pasteurized, notes of hay, grass and savory vegetal are present as well. This cheese pairs very well with Champagne, since the effervescence cuts through the richness of the cheese.
10% OFF
Cypress Grove (California)
Lamb Chopper
Carr Valley Cheese Co. (Wisconsin)
Cave Aged Marisa
Carr Valley Cheese Co.
Mobay
Valley Shepherd Creamery (New Jersey)
Oldwick Shepherd
Goat Milk - October 14-20, 2013
25% OFF
Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery (Vermont)
Bonne Bouche
A staff favorite at Sickles Market, Bonne Bouche is the flagship of Vermont Creamery’s signature geotrichum-rinded aged goat cheeses. Introduced in 2001, Bonne Bouche quickly won acclaim. Today it is one of the most popular “geo” cheeses on the market and has been awarded some of the most prestigious honors in the cheese world. Reminiscent of the Loire Valley cheeses of France, Bonne Bouche means “good mouthful” and is indeed a tasty bite. Made with fresh pasteurized goats’ milk from family farms, the curd is carefully hand-ladled, lightly sprinkled with ash, and aged just long enough to develop a rind. After about ten days, the cheeses are packaged in their individual crates and sent to market where they will continue to age up to eighty days. As a young cheese, the rind has a pleasant yeast flavor and creamy interior becoming softer and more piquant as it ages.
10% OFF
Cypress Grove (California)
Truffle Tremor
Nettle Meadow Farm and Artisan Cheese (New York)
Kunik
Holly Grove Farm (North Carolina)
Fresh Chevre
Coach Farm (New York)
Triple Cream
Blue Cheese - October 21-27, 2013
25% OFF
Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Co. (Cailfornia)
Original Blue
This popular blue cheese for those blue cheese fence-sitters is described as having creamy layers of full-flavor. All natural and made with raw milk, Original Blue is Kosher-certified, gluten-free and made with microbial (vegetarian) rennet. Tastes like sweet, fresh milk with a medium-to-strong punch of blue flavor. An excellent blue for a cheese course, it also works well with salads, dressings, dips, in a sauce for steak and grilled vegetables. This blue can also be paired with honey, figs, stone fruit, and berries and is perfect with sparkling wines and full-bodied reds such as Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon and vintage Port. One taste and you will be a blue convert!
10% OFF
Cellars at Jasper Hill (Vermont)
Bayley Hazen Blue
Rogue Creamery (Oregon)
Rogue River Blue
Roelli Cheese (Wisconsin
Dunbarton Blue
Maytag Dairy Farms (Iowa)
Maytag Blue
ALL FEATURED OCTOBER CHEESES - October 28-31, 2013
All FEATURED CHEESES ARE 10% OFF
Visit the new Online market at www.sicklesmarket.com for Sickles Market’s Cheese of the Month Club, a monthly selection of cheeses mailed to your home or as a gift.
Sickles Market – sharing quality since 1908, is a third generation family-owned market and a trusted source for well-edited quality selections of produce, baked goods, gourmet grocery items, meats, hand cut-to-order artisanal cheeses, prepared foods, cut flowers, a garden center and nursery, and a gift department. Sickles Market is located on ancestral property that dates back to a King’s Land Grant in 1663. Sickles Market, not only offers the very best products and service at its Little Silver, NJ location, it has grown beyond its four walls to offer world-class specialties to customers everywhere through its online shop. In addition, Sickles “On the Road Tours” conducts day trips and travel programs to exceptional culinary and horticultural destinations in the U.S. and abroad. www.sicklesmarket.com
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