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Saturday, February 16, 2008

The Cheese Stands Alone - Place 32


One of the great things about the city is its wide variety of specialized little stores. Most recently, we stopped in at The Cheese Stands Alone a great little cheese store just off Lincoln Square, about 2 miles or so from where we live. Kate had been reading an entertaining book called The Cheese Primer and became aware of this store, so off we went! After the owner allowed us to taste several scrumptious samples, we settled on an Aged Appenzeller from Switzerland which was hard, with good but not overwhleming flavor, and a Valdeon from Spain which was a very strong blue cheese. Both were delicious. We brought chunks of each home and have been lunching on them since.

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