Every neighborhood needs a cheese store as fabulous as Williamsburg's Bedford Cheese Shop. I fell in love with this place when the counterperson wordlessly pressed a hefty sample of Comte de Montagne into my hand. The nutty, sweet firm cheese was just what I'd been craving, and soon a quarter-pound of it was mine. (The amusing description for this lovely cheese reads: "This cheese, aged 100 meters above sea level, looks down on you and says, "I'm better than you. Way better.")
Bedford Cheese Shop offers everything from Australian feta to burrata. If you want to make sense of it all, you can purchase Steven Jenkins' Cheese Primer.
But if for some reason you're not in the mood for the cheese display, take advantage of the shelves! Check out the small but well-chosen assortment of bread (I ended up with a round potato-onion loaf), the array of Italian sausages (including sweet and hot sopressata), the jars of PB Loco's Dutch chocolate peanut butter or the candied orange-almond cookies and fig-rosemary wine flats from Red Hook's Fanciulla Foods. Today, I splurged on the aforementioned cheese, a jar of English lemon curd made with free-range eggs, a few sugarplums, some white anchovies, and pear vanilla butter from CMB Sweets!
Bedford Cheese Shop, 218 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, (718) 599-7588.
Sunday, August 07, 2005
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Now, I don't care for cheese, myself (yeah, I know, no need to shoot me). But I'm a huge fan of this little shop. They're just so...cool in there. And until recently they were a reliable neighborhood source for pappadew peppers, mmm. Last few times I stopped in they didn't have them, though, and I finally stopped asking. Bring back the peppers, please!
peppers are coming, i promise...
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