I have always preferred the spicy, juniper-spiked flavor of gin to the blandness of vodka. So when I spied a thick round of Juni, a cow’s milk cheese from northern Italy whose paste is shot through with crushed juniper berries, I did a little happy dance. I had not heard of this cheese before and just happened to come across it while perusing the cheese case at the Balducci’s in Old Town.
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