Thank you Van Arsdales

ChrisatBedfordCheese / Sunday, 07.25.2010, 12pm

Brooklyn’s Most Favorite Summertime Cheese?

ChrisatBedfordCheese / Saturday, 07.24.2010, 2pm

So I’m not entirely sure how it started.  Or where.  Or when.  Maybe Rachael Ray shrieked about it on her show one day.

No.  I will not use shredded cheese or tomatillos on anything.

No. I will not use shredded cheese or tomatillos on anything.

Or was it on a previous cover of Food & Wine Magazine?  Maybe?  Last summer?  All I know is that right now, everyone’s favorite designer cheese is the Italian classic: Burrata.  It’s sort of like this season’s French Bulldog of the cheeseworld (and when did everyone get one of those smash faced, snub tailed snorters?  Damn, they’re cute but why did everyone have to go out and get out?)  Hoardes of people come waltzing into the shop, acting like Scarlett O’Hara, waving and blowing kisses to an adoring mass of fans and stop square in front of the case and demand the product.

Keep on readin’…

Cheesepinions, Round #10

ChrisatBedfordCheese / Wednesday, 07.07.2010, 4pm

BOOMSHAKALAKA-SHAKALAKA-SHAKABOOM.

Two blog posts in one week!?  What?  That’s like.  Crazy people talk!

Well guess what.  You can finally rest at ease because I feel like blogging TWICE this week.  And it’s more cheesepinions.  Awwwwww yeahhhhhh sonnnnnnn.

New York is ungodly hot right now.  Yesterday, it got up to 108. (Well…by the Target at Atlantic Center.  But things are always a tad sPicIer over there…)  So there isn’t a whole lot of cheesin’ going on.  But, hopefully when things cool down we can go to farms and play with farm animals and take lots of pretty photos.

But until then you’ll just have to take our favorite farm animal: Dylan.  And he’s got a couple things to say about sheep.

Keep on readin’…

Cheesepinions, Round #9

ChrisatBedfordCheese / Friday, 07.02.2010, 4pm

Hi.  It’s me.  Your flaky blog buddy who decided to take a summer vacation.  Remember me?  Of course you do.

Well guess what.  I snuck inside from my serious summer of sunbathing and white wine spritzers to write something on the blog.  Because the internet doesn’t take vacations.  No sir.

So I thought I’d get back into the swing of things with everyone’s favorite: CHEESEPINIONS!  Huzzahhhhhhh.  And we are back with everyone’s most bespectacled cheesemonger, STEPHANIE!  And the crowd goes wild…

So this week, Stephanie is all tingly over Appalachian from Meadow Creek Dairy in south eastern Virginia.

Meadow Creeks Appalachian

Meadow Creek's Appalachian

Keep on readin’…

Hop On Pop

ChrisatBedfordCheese / Friday, 06.18.2010, 1pm

Ok. The blog has been super lame recently. Like. There is absolutely no information on this stupid website anymore. I got super disheartened by Google Analytics which says that visits to the blog are 88% DOWN from this time last month. I mean. Seriously. Dropping the ball left and right. So I’m sorry! I promise I’ll get back into it. But you guys know how it goes – summer time rolls around. You don’t want to do much but figure out how to do your job outside (cheesy bake sale on Bedford Avenue anyone?)…

Anyways. We do have something exciting to announce though. DAH DAH DAH DAH DAAAAHHHH DADA DAH DAHHHH DAHHHHHHH. (That was Vanna White music…)

What a good dad!

What a good dad!

Father’s day is coming up!  Woaaahhhh totally radtastic.

So here at the Bedford Cheese Shop, we had a think tank, got together and figured that we should do what we do best: make some sort of gift basket in honor of DADS.  How fun!

This basket has everything in it.  Seriously everything.

1 Biellese Cacciatorini (sausage! yeah!)

1 bag of Liddabit Caramel Corn

1 tin of luscious sardines

1 package Petite Toasts

1 Michel Cluizel chocolate bar

1 Cadbury’s Milk Bar

1 Jar of awesome Colman’s English Mustard

1 small format goat’s milk cheese (go goats!)

1/3 lb. of Lincolnshire Poacher

1/3 lb. of Scharfe Maxx

All this for $55.  Sick.  And we can arrange shipping.  So get over here and get some last minute treats for good ol’ Dad.  You lazy Williamsburg tools…too busy drinking PBR and squeezing into leggings instead of pants…..thinking about ironic tattoos of Smurfs dressed up like Depeche Mode or whatever.  BUY YOUR DAD A GIFT BASKET.  He’ll be ever so happy and might pay your credit card bill….hooray!

To all of our cheese friends.

ChrisatBedfordCheese / Sunday, 06.13.2010, 3pm

Stephanie wants to gift all of our cheese friends with this video today. (Which she doesn’t know how to post herself).

Also, she says “You’re welcome.”

Cheese Media

ChrisatBedfordCheese / Tuesday, 06.08.2010, 7pm

So I have a series of cheese videos and things to show all of you.  They should entertain.  The first is courtesy of Mike – our resident musician – who claims that this is a “statement about Dutch cultural stereotypes.”  OH ART.  So……dumb sometimes.

The second is about the king of cheese. Parmigiano Reggiano.  Yeah, France.  I said it.  Italian cheese rules.  So deal.

Keep on readin’…

Look at our pants…

ChrisatBedfordCheese / Saturday, 05.29.2010, 1pm

…because they got all fancy on us.

Look at this private party we catered in Soho! We can do this for you too. Just ask nicely and we deliver.

Bedford Cheese Shop: Professional Party Cheese Animals.

Keep on readin’…

The Secret Language of Cheesemongers

ChrisatBedfordCheese / Thursday, 05.27.2010, 12am
I will miss you.
I will miss you.

So a couple nights ago was the SERIES finale of Lost.  It will be no more.  Ever.  Never?What makes it more awkward is that now we aren’t going to have anything to talk about at the Shop since this one show has taken up a good chunk of our daily conversation.   But, because my mind is no longer occupied with the perils of the passengers of Oceanic Flight 815, I can calmly return to the world of blogging. (God, all of this sounds so terribly dorky.  ABC mini-dramas? Blogs? I promise we aren’t that nerdy.  Well….maybe.  Yeahhhhh….)

This week I thought I would add to the cheese-ipedia with some cheesemonger lingo that we throw around a lot.  Affineur, rennet, thermalized (although if you are a loyal blog fan you SHOULD know what that means), coagulate, hung over. So on and so forth. Sometimes people understand what we are talking about.  And sometimes, people have no clue what the words coming out our mouths mean.  But that’s another story.

Keep on readin’…

Cheesepinions, Round #8

ChrisatBedfordCheese / Wednesday, 05.12.2010, 5pm

HEAR YE. HEAR YE.

Here marks the beginning of the end…

…of Spring time goats milk cheeses.  (GOTCHA!  I bet you thought I was going to say something about the end of the blog.  Ha!  Never.  This blog will NEVER DIE.  Just like Elizabeth Taylor.  Or Terminator…)

Anyways – I again apologize for the lag in blogging!  I am a busy little cheesy bee, running around and trying to get things done.  But, I am back for another round of everyone’s most favorite installment: CHEESEPINIONS. (And the crowd goes WILD.)

So this week Dani has got some things to say.  Even though he is in Europe right now, raging with the best of them in Barcelona and Holland, he shall be heard across the pond – right here in Brooklyn.

  Keep on readin’…