An eve of Murray’s Cheese

Through a glass tile in the sidewalk in front of Murray’s Cheese on Bleecker Street, you can glimpse an underground cave where cheese is aging.  Tuesday night I was invited to tour the caves and sample delicious product.  A group of us were given red chef’s coats and hair-nets to prepare for a subterranean tour by the store’s affineur* Mike Anderson.  There is so much to learn about cheese after it’s made and before it’s sold, that an hour down below was not enough.  Upstairs we got to taste the wares, including the most luscious, buttery Sweet Grass Dairy Green Hill and nutty, textured Uplands Cheese Company Pleasant Ridge Reserve. 

Here are some of the photos I took, including one from the vantage point from within the cave, looking up to the street.  (I know what you’re thinking.  No, you can’t see up someone’s skirt from down there.)

*Affineur = One who ages cheese and purveys it, or colloquially, cheese babysitter.

rania posted to Tastebuds on August 21, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (5)

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Since we tasted several cheeses, I only mentioned my two favorites:

“Upstairs we got to taste the wares, including the most luscious, buttery Sweet Grass Dairy Green Hill and nutty, textured Uplands Cheese Company Pleasant Ridge Reserve.”

By rania on September 8, 2009

which was the best? which was the best?

By jl on September 1, 2009

Great tour of the cave!  I was always curious about it .  Now I have an idea of what it is like down there and I know about two great cheeses I should try.  Plus, I know that no one can see up my dress when I walk over the glass on the sidewalk.

By Diane Mc on August 22, 2009

Mmmmm, looks delicious!

By Jayne on August 22, 2009

oh YUM!!!! more pics more pics

By jl on August 21, 2009

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