Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Bad Cheese

Don't go to the farmers' market and buy some cheese just 'cuz it looks sooooo good it has to taste good. Sigh. Learned my lesson. The WORST cheese I have ever tasted - bland and bitter at the same time. Can't even imagine melting it and putting it in a dish. I had a nice conversation with a young local farmer about his meat and eggs and milk and I just saw this wedge of cheese and it was so pretty. Reminded me of something I saw in France. Well, I paid $5 for the experience, I guess.

Cute little farmers market in the parking lot of the Wallingford Center. About as many vendors as are in Lake City's but different people. There's a home made take-home pizza place and a winery and a Russian pastry guy as well as several fruit and veggie vendors. Also, a few meat people and a fish guy. But their prices are so high. $19 a pound for Halibut and Salmon. $9 for a pack of home made sausages. Who can afford this stuff? And I saw the most beautiful heirloom tomato - but it would have cost $5! For one tomato. I'm all for the local and organic food movements and I want to support them.

Maybe if I don't spend $5 on bad cheese I can afford 1 pork chop.

1 Comments:

Blogger Lisa said...

Always taste the cheese first. There are incredible artisan cheesemakers at the farmers markets--but you've got to try the stuff first. Goat cheese is usually amazing there.

7/09/2009 6:53 AM  

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