Out of a possible 100 points, Marieke Gouda scored 98.31 in the final round of judging.

WSJ: Wis. Gouda named 2013 US Championship Cheese

As Spanish-language television blared out the news, they sat down to plates piled with shredded gouda cheese, plantains and stuffed cornbread patties.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The doubts emerged early October when a group of major investors thought the acquisition plan smelled rather like aged, spiced gouda: too risky and too expensive.

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As you sit on your top deck, nibbling aged Gouda and brown Dutch bread and sipping cold gin, you can watch canal life at eye level.

FORBES: Playing the Float

There was a bison tartare, which came buried under a soft-boiled quail egg, and was meant to be mixed all together with the gouda cheese and rosemary mustard vinaigrette that were included.

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Here cheese-maker Alastair Pearson takes 90, 000 litres of milk a year from five biodynamic farms and turns it into enormous rounds of nutty, muslin-wrapped cheddar, creamy brie, Swiss-style mountain cheese, gouda and mature, tangy tomme.

BBC: Eat your way around Yorkshire

He hits the quintessential barbecue dishes, pork ribs and beef brisket, but also planked camembert cheese, soft-shell crab sliders, bacon wrapped prunes stuffed with gouda, porchetta, Thai chicken skewers, Korean beef tacos, lobster, shrimp, oysters, Cambodian style chicken, Argentinean, Brazilian and Peruvian dishes, even grilled Angel food cake.

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