Street Cheese

Cornish Yarg is here!

It may sound like a pirate's exclamation, but this cheese is not as salty as a seafarer's speech. Made by Lynher Dairy in Cornwall, Cornish Yarg is a visually striking cheese wrapped in locally foraged nettle leaves.

This pasteurized cow's milk cheese looks similar to the Gorwydd Caerphilly we enjoyed earlier this spring, but it’s a touch younger and firmer of a cheese as it is aged only about a month before the creamery sends the cheeses to Neal’s Yard Dairy in London to sell. Cornish Yarg’s bright green nettle exterior gives way to a delicately earthy rind over a buttery, lemony and yogurt cheese within. 👌

“Yarg” in the name is actually “Gary” spelled backwards—a reference to Alan Gray, the Cornish farmer who found the lost 17th Century recipe for this cheese in the 1980s started recreating it.

This is a super snacky, seasonally appropriate cheese, so we hope you'll come in and snag a wedge!