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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Cheese-Louise
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 02:23:40 GMT
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- Nelson and FJ talking about cheeses gets me going.
-
- Chili con queso, made with Velveeta and chopped chilis
- (unlike, surprisingly, the Texas thing Nelson reports), is
- popular here. I've had it pretty fiery a couple times.
- There's a place here that makes really good blue-corn
- tortilla chips, which I love. I usually skip the so-called
- chili con queso and eat the chips plain or dipped in not so
- fiery salsa. The sole virtue of Velveeta is that it's
- always smooth when melted (the library paste in it does
- that, I suppose).
-
- We'll have to work on you Nelson, about sharp cheddar and
- sharper yet Swiss cheese. You can't get the really good
- stuff in stores here, but in Wisconsin you're seldom more
- than 20 miles from a good cheese factory (what a wonderfully
- sour but clean smell they have!). If you get there about
- 3:00 in the afternoon, when they're pretty much done for the
- day, you can jabber with the cheesemaker, who will take you
- back in the cooler to try the really good stuff. Costs an
- arm and a leg, but hey, that's why we work, eh? Both aged
- cheddar and aged Swiss should be at least six months old
- (what's called "aged" in the supermarket is usually about
- two months old), and fairly crumbly, at or just below room
- temperature, and eaten with a really good flatbread (no
- salt!) and strong coffee or a tasty homemade libation like
- dandelion wine. I like cheese with beer, too.
-
- In the soft-cheese department, some guy came from France a
- few years ago to a small Wsconsin town called Belmont and
- started making first-rate Brie, called, naturally enough,
- Brie de Belmont. This too must be fully ripened, that is,
- starting to run almost as soon as you get it out of the
- fridge. Delicious, but very hard on the arteries, so it
- should be done in moderation.
-
- There are, fortunately, lots of good cheeses on this earth.
-
- As for dietary weirdness, I've not run into many people who
- drink aloe vera gel regularly, which I do to the tune of
- about an ounce daily (in OJ).
-
- ObMotss: queers eat.
-
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- <> -- Frank Zappa
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