Seattle's Best in NYC

I have never been to Seattle. I know that Frasier had a talk show there, it rains a lot, and my good friend Leah hails from that part of Washington. I had no idea that they would have such great cheese. Then I read an article about Beecher's Cheese in the New York Times (Found Here). Beechers is a family company, founded in Seattle's Pike Place and dedicated to the art of American cheesemaking. 

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At 6:30pm on a Wednesday, The Cellar at Beecher's was on a 45 minute wait. Luckily they had a pear maple cocktail that made the time fly by.


For the best and cheesiest meal you'll ever eat in a basement, complete with a shop full of scrumptious American cheeses made on premise, head  over to Beecher's at 900 Broadway in the Flatiron District: 
Beecher's Handmade Cheese!

On Beecher's exclusive cheese plate, each cheese was paired with a sauce or morsel that provided an often surprising compliment to the cheese itself. The cheeses varied from a spicy Jack to an aged cheddar. The pairings varied from honey to thai chili peppers to nuts. One cheese, a variation of Beecher's signature Flagship cheese with the addition of sheep's milk, stood out from the rest. 

Oh Beecher's Flagsheep, 

I hereby crown ye Cheese of the Week.

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Here's to a week filled with stories and cheese that are daring, dangerous, and age defiant,  all fused together in an unexpected harmony.

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Daring: Most of us spend the work day at a desk. Others spend it rappelling down national monuments. After our earthquake scare, we watched in fear this week as a "difficult access team" of specialists scaled the sides of the Washington monument in the pouring rain. Their act was almost as daring as feeding a new cheese recipe to voracious New Yorkers.

Daredevil Washington Monument inspection starts (boston.com)

Dangerous:
The greater the danger, the greater the reward. That must be what base jumpers believe, and cheesemakers too. The guys at Beecher's took the dangerous step of adding another animal's milk to their perfect cheddar recipe in order to reap the reward of yet another incredible cheese.

Base jumper Jean-Philippe Teffaud from Grenoble, France, leaps off the Kuala Lumpur Tower in Malaysia (telegraph.co.uk)

Age Defiant:
The flagsheep, while appearing to be of a ripe old age, still possesses the vigor of a younger cheese. This California man did too: at the age of 68, he survived for six days eating leaves and drinking water from a creek after his car fell off a ravine. 


California man, 68, found alive by his children, nearly a week after plunge off mountain road (washingtonpost.com)




Fused Together:
Flagsheep is a fusion of cow and sheep's milk, a combination that brings out a surprisingly normal flavor. This Massachusetts cat was born with two faces and lives a surprising normal life. It broke a record this week when it turned 12 years old. Happy birthday, Frank and Louie. Your owner is a brave soul.  


House Cat With 2 Faces Lives 12 Years, Sets Record (foxnews.com)

Now go out and eat some cheese.