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Castle Cheese
About Castle Cheese
Cheese belongs to farm country in a way that few other foods do, and the White Valley around Lumby is farm country of the small and mixed sort: hay ground, pasture, woodlots and hobby acreages worked alongside other jobs. Castle Cheese, as the name suggests, trades in that side of things, in a village whose economy has always run on what the land nearby produces.
Shopping for cheese is worth approaching with a few questions in mind, whether you are buying from a specialist counter or off a regular shelf: what is cut fresh versus pre-wrapped, whether a smaller piece can be sized down for a single household, how long a given style holds once it is opened, and what it pairs well with. If you are buying for a gathering, asking rather than guessing saves you from bringing home more than the table needs.
Two practical points for a rural errand. First, Lumby is a village rather than a valley town with retail hours to match, so a phone call before driving in from the district saves a wasted trip, particularly around holidays and in the shoulder seasons. Second, cheese travels badly in a hot truck cab. Summers in this part of the interior get warm, and a cooler in the back for the drive home up Highway 6 is a small precaution that protects what you just bought. In winter, the opposite problem is real enough to be worth a thought as well.
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