All About Cheese in Montreal & Quebec

[sf&m]

Peter,

To learn more about available QC cheeses I recommend

"Répertoire des fromages du Québec" by Richard Bizier.

It covers a couple of hundred (!) QC cheeses and is well illustrated and crossreferenced.

It's available at Librairie Gourmand at JTM.

/gth

[doronin]

I'm wondering if a good, natural or even better organic, preferably goat or sheep milk, but cow will do as well, cream cheese available in Montreal?

[iroc326]

Liberte Cream Cheese.....widely available...

Go buy bagels at Fairmount or St-Viateur, they have it....

[Snackhappy]

There's also Western that's all natural, but I prefer Liberté.

Is Astro cream cheese still around? I used to love that stuff.

[Peter Horowitz]

yeah, Liberty is the best you'll find around here.

If we were in NYC, there's a few places that make their own.....we're too lazy here.

[Gabriel Lewis]

You can get Beurrerie du Patrimoine's creamcheese at Qui Lait Cru!? over at the Jean-Talon market. I haven't tried it myself but it would probably be more natural or organic than Liberte as they use unhomogenised and low temperature pasteurized milk, and are more of an artisanal outfit. I think they only have cow's milk creamcheese but its possible they may have others; they do have goat's milk yogurt.

[doronin]

You can get Beurrerie du Patrimoine's creamcheese at Qui Lait Cru!? over at the Jean-Talon market. I haven't tried it myself but it would probably be more natural or organic than Liberte as they use unhomogenised and low temperature pasteurized milk, and are more of an artisanal outfit. I think they only have cow's milk creamcheese but its possible they may have others; they do have goat's milk yogurt.

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Thanks a lot - I'll check it at the nearest opportunity.

As for Liberty and Western... I meant "the real stuff", for me it rules out large scale industrial produce.

In place where I came from we had 6-12 kinds of highest quality goat or sheep milk cream- or other spreadable cheeses made by little or mid-range farms. It was normally quite expensive, but so delicious!

[doronin]

Hey, that's it? Why sushi thread was so much more active?

Yesterday I visited Atwater market, and bought there something called "Labane-style" cheese - sorry I forgot the farm name, but it was as far from a real labane as we're here from China.

I'm puzzled - there's plenty of mediterranean-style soft cheeses available - local, and imported from Italy, Spain, Greece, etc. How comes there's no high quality spreadable cheeses originating from the same area???

Edited February 26, 2007 by doronin (log)