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Abbaye de Belloc is a sheep's milk cheese developed in the 1960s by Benedictine monks in the French Pyrenees. Until about a decade ago, the monks made and aged the cheese in their abbey, using raw ...

The delicious little secret about Basque cheesecake, one of the most impressive-looking desserts, is that it’s also one of the easiest. An Internet darling of a cake, created in the 1990s by Spanish ...

Inspired by her Basque heritage, Marcia Barinaga abandoned a career as a science writer several years ago to make farmstead sheep cheese in West Marin. In 2001, she and her husband, Corey Goodman, ...

Santiago Rivera is widely credited with creating the “burnt” cheesecake in the 1980s, though he doesn’t love the spinoffs it ...

Despite the small scope of the Basque Country -- it has an area of less than 3,000 square miles -- Basque cuisine has a premier position in the culinary world. Straddling the Spanish-French border, ...