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Murray’s Cheese

  • Improvised Mac & Cheese

    Improvised Mac & Cheese

    The Mac & Cheese you see above was created by yours truly without a recipe. I don’t know if you find that impressive, but I’m certainly impressed with myself. It all started when I made those roasted red peppers you saw in the previous post. The next night, I had those in the fridge and…

  • Cheese of the Month Club

    Cheese of the Month Club

    Craig, as you may recall, performed the wedding of our friends Mark & Diana; as a thank-you gift, they got him (& me!) the greatest gift he, a lifelong cheese lover, could possibly imagine: a membership to Murray’s Cheese Cheese-of-the-Month Club. Now, thanks to iPhone video technology, you can share the experience of opening up…

  • The First Meal

    The First Meal

    The first meal that you cook in a new apartment is very, very important. We all remember what happened last time, don’t we? I attempted to inaugurate our Park Slope apartment three years ago with Edna Lewis’s fried chicken (fried in butter and lard) and didn’t get the fat hot enough. The result? Gooey, gloppy,…

  • Abbaye de Citeaux, The Soon-To-Be-Forbidden Cheese

    Abbaye de Citeaux, The Soon-To-Be-Forbidden Cheese

    I was wary of getting an iPhone because I didn’t want to be so reachable. With just a plain, ordinary cellphone I get enough calls; with an iPhone I’d also get buzzed every time I got an e-mail. And with all the PR e-mails I get to my Amateur Gourmet e-mail address that’s a lot…