Comments for Gordon ("Zola") Edgar

Comment on About by Cheese, Please: What’s This All About? « Bon Bouche

Cheese, Please: What’s This All About? « Bon Bouche — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:53:05 +0000

[...] One Bi-Rite employee kindly recommended the aforementioned Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge by Gordon Edgar, and I haven’t been the same [...]

Comment on One of my holiday cheese plates by gordonedgar

gordonedgar — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:23:44 +0000

When I used to buy it from a different source, it never came labeled at all!

Thanks! Glad you liked the book.

Comment on One of my holiday cheese plates by Lyle

Lyle — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:57:36 +0000

It doesn’t look like it was on previous labels, with the goatherder and goat and tree (and maybe Mediterranean, it’s a little fuzzy), but I’m not sure how far back these go, http://jdygourmet.com/catalog/cheese/domestic_artisanal/beehive_cheese__utah/meat/charcuterie/spanish_dry_cured_chorizos/function.session-start/jdy_spain/artisan_cheeses/goat-cheese-spain/pau_sant_mateu

I just finished your book and really liked it, and I have recommended it to others. Thanks!

Comment on One of my holiday cheese plates by gordonedgar

gordonedgar — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:29:37 +0000

All that linky-link is probably true, but the name “Pau” is nowhere on the new spiffy labels.

Comment on One of my holiday cheese plates by Lyle

Lyle — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:24:52 +0000

Pau Sant Mateu is the full name, Pau for short. It won the award for outstanding cheese at the Fancy Food Show in New York in 2003, per http://prettytothink.typepad.com/minor_gourmandry/cheese_plate/ . It’s in the Cowgirl Creamery Library of Cheese, http://www.cowgirlcreamery.com/prodinfo.asp?number=PAU . There is a small town named Pau NE of Barcelona about 2 hours, but it is also a common first name (e.g., Pau Gasol). One site says the cheese comes from a village called Vilassar de Dalt, only 10 miles NE of Barcelona, http://www.therogerscollection.com/Wholesale/Cheeses/Spanish_Cheeses/paussantmateu.pdf . The site says the name Pau is the cheesemaker’s son. It would be interesting to check it out on our upcoming trip to Catalonia, but first I want to try the Torta del Casar.
Lyle

Comment on One leaky Mozzarella by glenn

glenn — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:06:48 +0000

They make Depends for cheese?

Comment on A struggle in the mouth by tuppercooks

tuppercooks — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:20:44 +0000

I bet you’d have felt better if the 49′ers won. It was an epic game!

Comment on Cheese Still Life: Cheddar by Kelly P.

Kelly P. — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:47:50 +0000

WOW EE WOW! THAT’S ALOTA CHEDDA!!

Comment on Retail entitlement culture by Kat

Kat — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:35:25 +0000

I’m so glad you posted this blog entry. It is truly amazing what people will do and the sense of entitlement that they can have when it is more about poor judgment and error on their part. If a food goes bad that I’ve bought, my thought is “crap, I should’ve eaten that sooner!” rather than I should return it for money back. Craziness. The customer ISN’T always right.

Comment on Retail entitlement culture by Karen Tran

Karen Tran — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:00:43 +0000

It completely threw me for a loop the first time I had someone return cheese. In my opinion it is a perishable product and you have to use it before it goes bad – whenever that may be. And there really is no excuse especially when the store in question cuts to order. I’ve had lemons go moldy seemingly overnight or are dry … it never occurred to me to ask for a refund…. customers are weird.