Mystic Cheese Company Built On Tradition, Ingenuity

When you literary types hear the names Melville and Melinda Mae you obviously think of Herman Melville, author of " Moby Dick" and may even know the more obscure fact that Melinda Mae is a girl who eats a whale in a Shel Silverstein poem.

You probably don't think of cheese.

But those are actually the names of the first two original American cheeses to be made by The Mystic Cheese Company – inspired by owner/founder Brian Civitello's favorite literature.

Civitello uses a number of awesome alliterations to describe Melinda Mae:

"Melinda Mae is a rinded soft ripened 5.5-ounce square cow's milk cheese concisely curated in our ripening room for 23.5 days at 87.5 percent relative humidity. Premeditated not to pillage palettes and conquer cuisine, Melinda Mae marries well with malty brews, lighthearted whites, and mother nature's initial annual offerings of wild edibles, crisp cultivables, and preservable pomum."

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