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Other options here are crème fraîche, mascarpone, fromage blanc, etc.

Someone hand-slices every melon and cuts it to each airline’s specific cube size while another person organizes a cheese plate to match a photo, weighing each hunk of fromage down to the gram to ensure the carts hit their weight goals and keep the plane balanced.

But there's so much more that makes up the amazingly vast tapestry of dairy, such as differing forms of the "big four" as well as wholly unique products, from fromage blanc and crème fraîche to variations like mascarpone and skyr.

The results from the 2023 Mondial du Fromage competition in Tours, France, are in: Portland’s Sam Rollins of Cowbell Creamery took second place.

The success of CMI led to Rodolphe Le Meunier, third-generation cheesemaker and a friend of Moskowitz, founding Mondial du Fromage as a biennial competition in 2013.