Tecumseh’s Boulevard Market in This Morning’s Toledo Blade

Posted on 22 April 2008 under Food In The News, Michigan Cuisine

This morning Toledo Blade Food Editor Kathie Smith has published a rather nice article on our good friends John and Erica Aylward of the Boulevard Market over in Tecumseh, Michigan. Ms. Smith’s article focuses on the artisnal cheeses John makes in his Four Corners Creamery. At one point she mentions John “… also makes Northern Lights, a fresh spreadable cheese like a Boursin cheese from cow’s milk.” Adam and I both kinda recall John or Erica saying they’re selling about 26 pounds of their Northern Lights cheese each week! This is interesting, as the Northern Lights cheese, a soft cow milk cheese with garlic, peppercorns and paprika, was intended by John to be a “Christmas Holiday-only” cheese! Its popularity has just gotten a bit out-of-hand, and there is always a fresh tub of it in the store. In the image to the left you can see some freshly-ladled curdled milk for Camembert cheese in their “cheesemoulds” back in the pasteurizing room at the Market. This cheese will be available about three weeks after John pours it.

We have all kinds of connections with the Boulevard Market, including my daughter and their daughter being close friends, and one of Mary’s cousins renting one of John and Erica’s three upstairs apartments. They’re just a great family to get to know.

Oh and by the way … as I know Erica reads this blog on occasion … yeah, very nice that you allowed the Blade photographer to take a picture of you and publish it. Did you give them the same kind of hard time about that as you give me?? ;-)

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  1. 4 May 2008 @ 11:12 pm Posted by Christine

    Thanks for your comment on my blog.

    I’ve never heard of this creamery but it sounds very cool. I’ll have to check it out the next time I’m in the area. I wonder how they compare to Zingerman’s creamery…

    p.s. the link you left on my blog :

    http://www.monroenews.com/food/

    doesn’t seem to work.

  2. 5 May 2008 @ 4:46 am Posted by Dave

    Hi Christine … John’s creamery is quite different from the one at Zingerman’s as it was created with a totally different mindset as to what he wants to accomplish. If possible, I’d end up shopping at both.

    As to that link, I make that mistake on occasion … it should have been: http://www.blogsmonroe.com/food/ … thanks for taking the time to seek out the right site!

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