Day in the Work Life: The big cheese
New York City's Chanterelle restaurant offers menus decorated with limited-edition art, a 5000-bottle wine cellar and some of the best cheese in the world. Better have a good fromager.
Adrian Murcia poses with the cheese board he's prepared for the evening at the Chanterelle restaurant. (Daniel Weiss)
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Adrian's cheese recommendations:
INEXPENSIVE: Cave Aged Gruyere -- around $11 a pound.
Adrian says: "The quintessential mountain cheese. Ranks consistently well against other alpine cheeses twice the price. A lovely expression of high-elevation pasturage: herbaceous, caramelly, with hints of toasted hazelnuts."
MODERATE: Cobb Hill Ascutney Mountain Cheese -- around $16 a pound.
Adrian says: "A gruyere-style cheese made at a cooperative in Central Vermont. It's every bit as elegant and buttery as a Beaufort, but with an almost candied, American exuberance. The quality of this cheese has grown by leaps and bounds over the past five years."
EXPENSIVE: Abbaye de Citeaux -- around $24 a pound.
Adrian says: "The mildest of the so-called Holy Trinity of Burgundian washed-rind, raw cow's milk cheeses (The other two are Epoisses and L'Ami de Chambertin). Made at the monastery where the Cistercian order was founded. It's buttery and vegetal and compulsively edible."
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