Midnight Moon
The current issue of the
New Yorker
is all about food. In connection with it, today’s online
New Yorker
includes a
short food related piece
by occasional
Journal
food columnist
Jada Brotman
. As you might recall, Jada is a cheesemonger in an upscale Brooklyn establishment called
Provisions
. Apparently her literate cheese descriptions caught the eye of someone connected with the magazine. The piece has her comparing various cheeses to figures in literature.
Among the cheeses,
Cypress Grove’s fabulous Midnight Moon
:
Fuchsia
,
Gormenghast
, by
Mervyn Peake
Midnight Moon is my favorite hard goat cheese: sweet, salty, creamy, and vivid. Yet its black rind and the milky pallor of its interior hint at an ominous and slightly gothic character. Like the ill-fated, capricious, and beautiful Fuchsia from Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast, it is profoundly complicated—lovable and doomed.
Jada at work (photo by her Pa)
This article appears in Survival!.
Say **cheese**
Not surprising. Jada’s columns kick ass!!
What inspired hippies by what eternal ocean shores would have named their daughter Jada Calypso…
I eat his Cypress Grove with Humboldt Hotsauces’Habanero Mango Hot sauce, it is a savory and hot pair on a good crisp!
Support the locally made exquisite culinary delights of Humboldt!
“It’s her cheese.”
I knew Cypress Grove was making it big when I saw a huge wheel of Humboldt Fog in a small liquor/food store deli case in Cabo, Mexico. Obviously priced for the wealthy US ex-pats it was expensive but half gone.
wish we had a cheese store like that around here.
the one in the picture that is..