That rubbery orange square in the supermarket? In the Netherlands, that's not gouda — that's a cry for help. Real gouda comes from farms, ages for months or years in warehouses that smell like heaven, and crunches with protein crystals when it's old enough. We grew up on it. You deserve it too.
Hoi! We're a Dutch brother and sister who moved our cheese obsession across the ocean. Our dad spent his career in trading — we spent ours (so far) eating suspicious amounts of cheese. One of these skills turned out to be useful for importing.
We work directly with Dutch farms to bring aged boerenkaas — farmhouse cheese made from raw milk and aged over a year — to California. Cut and sealed at the source, shipped cold, delivered with zero rubbery squares involved.
— The Gouda Daddy family