Cheese with Honey

by Allan Shore
(Benicia, CA USA)

Note from Jan First

Cheese with honey is the way I manage to get my dog to eat his honey each day! I just roll a ball of cheese into a little honey which he loves and I believe helps to keep him happy and healthy.

Cheese with honey is not a new invention; they are in fact quite delicious together in fact many a French delicacy makes good use of goats cheese drizzled with a little honey and a sprinkling of herbs as delicious appetizers.

I received an article recently from Allan who has written a book about pairing the two together.

I have edited Allans article because it was primarily a "sales pitch" and some of the content was against my website policies.

However, I do think that maybe some of you might be interested further with what Allan has to say. You can read the edited version below plus I have included his email address should you wish to contact him.

Cheese with Honey submitted by Allan

For about two years now I’ve been on a mission researching cheese with honey. I and my partner have written a book on the subject, which we have called Green Gold: Pairing the World’s Honeys & Cheeses.

We first started as a result of a local fundraiser that paired these items here in Northern California.

I would like to make sure that readers of your great web site find their topics of interest. The Health Benefits of Honey are after all, wonderful in their own right and broad enough to keep us hungry for learning for some time.

Cheese with honey are both actually closer to being family than most people realize. They each find their separate origins in the same seeds, so to speak, what with the liquid of their lives coming out of a transformative process that preserved the "milk" of the earth’s greenery.

Both commodities have been critically important condiments in the flavoring of cultural advancement for as long as humans have recorded their existence. Cheese with honey are perfect commodities for this purpose.

Here is just one quote from a respected consultant to the honey industry. I like it because it reflects a sense of opportunity and the kind of professionalism that is often missing from the discussion of the future of honeys.

Says Ron Phipps in his most 2009 assessment of the International Honey Market—Challenges and Opportunities:

"Firstly, we need to preserve the incentive to produce and the incentive to consume honey, and keep all segments of the industry, including producers, exporters and importers, packers, manufacturers, retailers and consumers functioning as healthy segments of this large interlaced network.

A creative transformation is essential to achieving both increased demand and increased remuneration for honey, with its intriguing diversity of qualities, its health benefits and its roles in both providing a natural and delicious sweetener and feeding the planet."

You can send me an email to honeycheesepairing@gmail.com.
Allan