What I Learned from Eating $100 Worth of Cheese
Even a plate of cheese can be a metaphor for life.
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7 min readJun 7, 2020
On Friday, I went to a cheese shop for some exotic, exquisite, expensive cheeses.
My husband and I decided to use the money we might spend going to a restaurant on a fabulous cheese tray. We’ve been binge-watching Anthony Bourdain lately, and one theme that ran through our viewing choices this week was cheese.
Seeing him sip world-class wines and eating from giant wheels of cheese made us want a culinary adventure of our own.
But as we watched Mr. Bourdain eat his way through Europe’s finest, we wondered if we were missing something. If we were shortchanging ourselves with our bourgeois offering of grocery store cheeses.
So last week, we decided to splurge and treat our next “picky” like a mini vacation.
