Writer Nancy Johnson says, “Say hello to your local cheesemonger.” She offers a few tips on trying new cheeses, reading about cheese, and even making cheese at home.
Here’s the best advice for storing cheese: don’t. Instead, take home small portions and visit your friend behind the cheese counter more often. If that’s impractical, then remember this: a good cheese is still alive, needs to breathe, and suffers if it loses too much moisture.
In related news, Wallace & Gromit will have a new adventure next fall.
I might just mention here that “The Cheese Shop” is my favorite Monty Python routine. A brilliant (and probably unintentional) sendup of postmodernism.
Even though I loath cheese myself.
That’s the one where Cleese asks for every cheese known to man, but the guy is fresh out. Does he just shoot him in the end?
I thought in the end, he asked him out. That’s how those sketches usually ended anyway…
I think he says, “You realize I’ll have to shoot you now.”
Michael Palin says, “I quite understand, sir.”
Cleese shoots him and says, “What a senseless waste of human life.”
At least on the album. I know it best from the album.
The Cheese Shop Sketch on YouTube.
Do you really loathe cheese, Lars? All cheese? Do you like milk at all?
I like milk. Milk is very different from cheese. Cheese is spoiled milk.
I’ll eat it on pizza, though.
Nowhere else.