Article: Tastes Like Spring Celebrate the greening of the fields with a fresh goat cheese salad.

BOSTON UNCOMMON / COOKING

In France last year, I heard a pearl of wisdom: You should stop eating fresh goat cheese (also called chevre) at All Souls' Day in early November and resume eating it around Easter. The theory is that winter goat cheese tastes bland because of the goats' diet of hay, versus their spring, summer, and fall diet of wild grasses and greens.

I checked with a few local goat cheese makers, including Tricia Smith from Carlisle Farmstead Cheese in Carlisle, Ann Starbard of Crystal Brook Farm in Sterling, and Bob Stetson of Westfield Farm in Hubbardston. Each had heard this claim, and all three agreed that any truth behind it would depend on a slew of variables, from the ...

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