Go ahead. do it!
(Don’t know this store, but they ship. And we all know you’re flush with cash after BD 
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I’ll get some!
Edit - shit, shipping was $45, so no!
I’m not familiar with the other cheese you mentioned. From Wikipedia, they look very similar.
Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s just a language difference. Delicious stuff!
Jasper Hill Harbison and Cypress Grove Humboldt Fog both are easy to find and I like them a lot. But so many great cheeses out there, it is hard to say a favorite
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I tend to like trying different cheeses, over having the same ones, but Mrs Temple’s Alpine is a local cheese I do regularly buy.
The cheese I get most excited about though, is (**soft) smoked mozzarella, something that used to be hard to find in Italy, let alone elsewhere, but seems to be slowly increasing in popularity. Likewise smoked Burrata.
** i.e. not scamorza / hard cheese that is more commonly called smoked mozzarella, but rather that sold in a similar format to normal mozzarella di Bufala.
Wrangeback is excellent, I actually buy it at this store occasionally.
Other hard cheese I usually have Praire Breeze and Hikka Bay in the house. For softer, whatever Jasper Hill cheese my Whole Foods has.
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Abbaye de Citeaux, because 1) it’s a reasonably polite washed rind cheese, not too stinky but confidently stinky enough to be characterful, 2) the cachet of being illegal to sell in the US for several years, but not illegal to import yourself for personal use (lost my supplier this year though), 3) it’s from Burgundy, and 4) Richard Olney wrote that Aubert de Villaine talked about aging it in his own cellar, saying that it’s the only cheese that should accompany DRC wines.
That’s a great cheese shop; we used to live 5 min away from it, now a lil further but it’s close to one of the hospitals I work at.
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I feel like Rush creek reserve is hard to beat.
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When it’s not effed up sitting too long at Whole Foods, especially when I see other folks posting here about their WF selling it at half off.
They really don’t treat there cheese well, at least my local place. The Neal’s Yard stuff is so poor compared to what it is in London.
Depends on the location. When I lived in Dallas my local WF had an amazing cheese guy. True cheese nerd who knew his stuff.
My favorite cheeses are the ones after a multi course meal. The cheese itself doesn’t matter; it’s what the cheese represents: a culmination of enjoyment of food and company. Here’s one at Le Petit Cep with @Phil_T_r_o_t_t_e_r
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Wrapped in plastic, though right?
Could be fine if the turnover is quick.
Most of the stuff was cut to order. They didn’t have much pre-cut.
Super. I wonder how many Whole Foods do that?
Don’t think I’ve seen many others. That was a good one. Had a great lively bar as well.
L’Explorateur was a favorite of mine, seems impossible to get in the US now though.
Mt. Tam and virtually any good Parmigiano Reggiano. I think we sometimes forget how good Parm can be with a glass of wine.
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