When I was a kid, I liked my burgers cheese-free. My younger brother preferred cheeseburgers and other things I wasn’t allowed to have when I was the only child, like white bread and pixie stix. Enforcing rules on one kid is hard but two is impossible, I guess. My introduction to American cheese wasn’t until [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 18, 2008
Summer summer summer cheese.
Summer is for picnics. Cheese is for picnics. Somehow this makes cheese for summer, at least that’s what logic tells me; but when it is so hot and humid no one wants to eat anything too heavy. That is why selecting a summer cheese is so important, something satisfying and clean that [...]
June 8, 2008
Risotto with Cheese?
In early April, I was lucky enough to travel to the Piedmont region of Italy. Before my trip I did some research about the local food specialties so I would be sure not to miss them. I read Romancing the Vine by Alan Tardi and One Hundred and One Beautiful Towns of Italy by Paolo [...]
June 6, 2008
Beer to go with your cheese.
Drinking a beer from the Blue Point Brewing Company is something like sitting in my aunt’s soggy basement rec room and pounding Rolling Rocks stolen from the adult cooler at the Fourth of July picnic- in a good way. The brewery is on a small residential road in Patchogue Long Island and has only a [...]
June 3, 2008
Mecox Bay Dairy Farm Visit
After many wrong turns, driving back and forth and back again because of our inability to follow simple directions- we made it! I grew up on Long Island Sound but on Saturday I felt like a city slicker; it has been too long since I spent a day at the beach. Emily and I were [...]
