Bi-Rite Holiday Guide 2012

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Bloomy, Bluesy, Tangy, Oozy it’s all milk love...

The Gift that keeps on giving When you purchase these two special cheeses we’ll donate 25% to the Daphne Zepos Teaching Foundation, enabling one cheese professional each year to travel and share their knowledge in the spirit of the late Daphne Zepos, beloved cheese educator and Mission neighbor:

Essex St. Comte

This raw cow’s milk cheese is herbaceous & fruity with notes of cut grass. $14.99/half pound

L’Amuse Gouda

Two year old Gouda with full flavor & aromas of caramel and hazelnut $14.99/half pound

When ordering, please indicate how many pounds of each you’d like; estimate that 1 pound of cheese feeds 4–5 people.

Cowgirl Creamery Mt. Tam Our favorite local triple-crème, $13-$15/wheel Colston Bassett Stilton Mineral and hay notes with a creamy-yet-crumbly texture. Perfect paired with port! $13.99/ half pound Redwood Hill Cameo A tangy and slighty earthy goat’s milk cheese $14.99/ 8oz. wheel Barinaga Baserri A beautifully balanced sheep’s milk cheese with bright and savory notes $18.99/ half pound

Anthea’s Holiday Cheese Platter Tips Choose a variety of cheeses

in milk type, texture, region, and country

Focus on 3-5 cheeses

Cheese tastes best at

Bigger pieces and fewer varieties

Respect seasonality:

Try pears, apples and persimmons

room temperature

Have a different knife for every cheese

(you don’t have to use cheese knives)

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