Business Insider: I tried cheesecakes from Costco, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, and Walmart — there's just one I'd buy again
I tried cheesecake from Whole Foods, Walmart, Costco, and Trader Joe's to see which was the best. Although I'm typically a fan of Trader Joe's products, I thought its cheesecake was bland. Costco's ...
I tried cheesecakes from Costco, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, and Walmart — there's just one I'd buy again
On 4/18/2024 at 1:47 PM, voyager said: Cheese is difficult. It is alive and constantly morphing. Like they say you never dip your foot in the same river, you never eat the same cheese. We've had cheese that was very disappointing that we somehow neglected to toss, only to find it buried in the cheese bin later, now ethereal, if a little stinky.
Beaufort Alpages: a really nice Alpine raw-milk cheese, firm but not in the crumbly state. $47.99/lb, though. Bleu d'Auvergne: a cheese made for port, this is a brawny, powerhouse blue, possibly a bit too intense. Another raw-milk cheese. We'll probably have the rest with one of our new muscadine jellies.
A cheese event at a vast warehouse in Queens. Multiple bars, cheese-related events on stage and a massive, endless all-you-can eat cheese buffet curated by Tia Keenan. I ate as much as I could. Didn’t make myself ill, but I did feel weird afterwards. Some kind of cheese drunkenness. Sad bit, I remember running into Anne Saxelby there. 😢
Celeste is a lactic set cheese, which uses long, natural fermentation. Gossamer is a pasteurized milk cheese. They were both introduced by Cato in 2022 and I have had them side by side many times. Celeste is less complex (as an early Cato announcement said "patience is the highest priority", but patience here may be the highest virtue).