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April 19, 2006
FEATURED CHEESE: Gruyere Special Reserve
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Gruyere Special Reserve is a stiff, onion-y, piquant cheese. It’s the sort of cheese you want to nibble rather than gobble. Leave me alone with a block of Bergenost and, when you return, it will be gone and I will be guilty. Not so with Gruyere Special Reserve. That’s a distinction, not a criticism: This is good cheese to be taken in small doses.
I sampled GSR at Whole Foods before I bought it. Next to the cheese, there were two unmarked containers of toothpicks. In one container, the toothpicks were neatly stacked. In the other, they were jumbled. Everyone assumes, I suppose, that the neatly stacked toothpicks are new and the jumbled toothpicks are used. But what if it's the other way around? What if everyone takes a toothpick from the jumbled pile, uses it, and then places it very carefully alongside the neatly stacked toothpicks?
It probably wouldn't happen. But, still, you can never be too careful.
Posted by teb at April 19, 2006 10:19 AM