My wife Fleming calls Yarg one of her favorite cow's milk cheeses. "Cow's mik cheeses are not my favorite but this one has so much flavor." The cheese she is talking about is a pale yellow cheese with a distinctive green leaf wrap. Yarg wears a coat of nettle leaves, stings removed, which imparts a pleasing vegetal quality to the cheese. My first description of the taste was asparagus but I decided it was really more like celery. After trying 150 other cheese I can say that I've never tasted one like Yarg and that taste is good. I get annoyed when people talk about food or wine producers they've never met by name so I mention Allan and Jenny Gray who make Yarg because its name comes from theirs. Yarg is Gray spelled backwards. The Grays found a 13th century recipe for a cheese that had gone extinct and brought it back to life. Michael Crichton couldn't write a better story.

Name: Cornish Yarg or Yarg
Type of Milk: cow's, unpasteurized
Type: semi-hard
Produced in: England, Cornwall, Lynher Dairies
Date Purchased: 9/26/07
Date Eaten: 9/29/07
Purchased Where: online, www.artisanalcheese.com
Price: $30.00/lb.