And you might well follow your nose to my mum’s house where you’ll sometimes find a Stinking Bishop in the corner of her garden. She’ll let it into the house when we are eating but otherwise the smelly and runny cheese from Gloucestershire isn’t welcome near the house.
I actually looked for the Neal’s yard dairy in Neal’s Yard, Covent Garden. Of course there are only healthy restaurants and shops that sell beads there. It was only on the way out from the yard that I smelt the shop and found my way in there.
It sells over 60 English cheeses depending on how many cheese makers can be bothered to make their cheese, rather than appear on TV, that week. You can also buy seasonal apples, eccles cakes and other goodies.
Just to be peverse I’m only eating unpasteurized cheese at the moment simply because, apart from Roquefort and Grana Parmiagiano, you can’t get it in Australia.
Between Neal’s yard, the stall at Saffron Walden market and Paxton and Whitfield on Jermyn St I’ve been eating well this cheesewise week.
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So jealous right now. Eat up.
Eccles cakes…. Eccles cakes with Cheshire Cheese – food of the Gods!
Now I am really really jealous. I MISS Neals yard. DAMN!
Damn I miss british cheese if you are over there you should try Isle of Mull cheddar!
i hate you! i want all that cheese
I need to move there, stat!
I visited Paxton and Whitfield recently too, one of the smelliest (that’s a good thing) cheese shops I’ve ever been too. There was so much condensation on the windows, it reminded me of that scene in Titanic when LDC and Winslet were getting it ornnnnnnn in the car. I prefer the cheese shop though.
Cheese, the very word lets you show all your incisors and it has another meaning, called “nutritious”. It is rich in fat and protein depending on the type and I like Cheddar in the hard variety. I consume a lot of mozzarella in the form of pizza. I like to say “cheese” everyday.