I'll see your $27/lb beer cheddar and raise you my $32/lb Mt. Tam, which is sex on a plate. :-)

Are you still in California? (You were in Germany for a while, and I may have missed if that was a permanent thing.)

If you're still in Cali, you will have an easier time getting it than I do!

http://www.cowgirlcreamery.com/ makes the cheese. It's a specialty item. Whole Foods over here doesn't carry it, but they might in the San Jose area, because it's local (well, local enough). You can drive into San Fran and go to their store.

Please note that it needs to be eaten at the right ripeness. What is "right" varies with your taste. It's a triple-creme, bloomy-rind cheese.

What's it called?

I don't have a local one of those, but we do have the mother of all cheese shops, so I'll have to see if they have it.

Hmmm...must make note to look for that cheese during my next grocery run...even if I have to go to Rice Epicurean market or some similar store to find it...

my but that sounds delicious

Dividing your readers down the middle - a local cheesemaker here produces a strong cheddar with marmite in it. It alos looks marbled, and is fantastic on toast, sliced thinly enough that the heat of the toast starts to warm it through from room temperature.

He also does a few other flavours. I haven't seen him in the local market recently though. He's usually near the guy who does the pigeon and pear sausages and chunks of wild boar.

Oh, and the cheese is 9 USD for a half pound.

On the 17th, apparently. I will try to smuggle cheese, if I can find it at the market. If not, then I shall try to find some in time for enochsmiles being in the country next, even if only passing through. There are other cheeses too. I will make a note of them, next time I find them, and offer choices.

Don’t you think that's backwards? Why must tasty cheese be that expensive?

Sweet. One of my favorites is teleme -- I only discovered it recently.

I also wouldn't worry about the cost of your refined taste in cheese. You could, for example, be into fine wine, sports cars, caviar, cocaine, gambling etc. A little cheese snobbery is quite cheap by comparison.

Which Mollie Stone's is this? (I saw none at the Cal Ave location today)

If this is Cahill's porter cheddar, I found it at the Oakland Whole Foods, on sale for $16.99/lb down from $19.99.

It is way yummy.

oh god must go buy cheese after class

ohhh so hungry. craving.

*laughs* ok so i usually pop open a new tab when i read someone's comments on lj, and i had just done so to read your cheesetastic post and the cheese chatter. and then i closed it.

*laughs*

and this is what popped up in the tab underneath it from someone else's lj post that i read last night


*shakes head* i couldn't write these things if i tried.

Want a cheaper cheese addiction? Look for Dubliner Irish cheese. The lowest price is at Trader Joes, though you can get it at fancy grocery stores. There's something about the flavor such that I just eat it and not stop.