CHEEEEESE

Wallace and Gromit
Is Wensleydale good grilled?

Brother, do we eat a lot of cheese around this house. Grilled cheese, eaten too frequently, can cause visions.

Some people see Virgins. We see Old Glory.

Cheese Souffle – was really hoping this is what my son would answer at school when they asked about his favorite foods. But no, he wrote:
1. Cande
2. Fastfod
3. Bacin
Although he sure does like cheese souffle.

Fondue – every Thursday night, in fact. Scraping up the crust at the bottom is the best part. That and occasionally stabbling yourself in the palm with a cute pointy fondue fork. Dang, that’ll make you bleed. Drop your bread in the cheese, gotta kiss the person to the left of you. Bleed in the cheese, gotta leave the table.
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Cheese should be in my blood actually, seeing as my dad owned a dairy when I was a kid. The kind that makes ice cream and cottage cheese, and brings it to your house, early in the morning. Can you imagine!?

My grandfather owned the dairy/bakery and he was not, to make a gross understatement, a nice man. My uncle Si made a sharp left when he finished high school and headed straight to med school. None of that family business stuff for him. Smart man.

Si’s words when he was about 75, in a taped interview:
I never ate dairy stuff because my mother never liked it. That’s why I can’t stand butter or cheese or cream or milk. I hate ice cream above everything else.

That’s the power of family, alright. Thankfully I was never an employee of my granddad.

Cheese pizza? Let’s don’t even mention it. Ack, if I never saw a flat greasy box coming up my front steps again it would be too soon

The obvious queries:
How do I do my make-up to look so, well, burnty?
AND
Is that sandwich nestled in cotton balls?

And finally, Museum of the Week.
Ta da!
Cuba Cheese Museum
P. O. Box 34
Cuba NY 14727

Mission: The museum and education facility tell the story of the cheese and milk industry, focusing on western New York State, an historic center of cheese production. Operated primarily by volunteers, with a small annual grant from New York State.

Admission Info: Closed during winter months. Open Friday, 2 – 4 pm; Saturday, 10 am – 1 pm.

Photo by Renee Comet
Foodstyling by Lisa Cherkasky