Antonelli’s x Essex Street: Behind-the-Scenes Cheese Tour
It’s local; it’s global; it’s a tasty, one-of-a-kind experience
By Wayne Alan Brenner, 5:00PM, Wed. Apr. 1, 2020
Austin’s fiercest cheesemongers team up with Essex Street Cheese’s Rachel Juhl to provide this virtual but actual-cheese-enhanced world tour to turn your Saturday night into a shelter-in-place paradise of dairy-based goodness.
Essex Street, see, is a world-class curator of an exclusive and select array of cheeses, traveling the globe to discover cheeses that taste the best and working with affineurs to develop specific flavor profiles. Now, for Saturday’s tasting of five cheeses and five food pairings, accompanied by a combination of live and pre-recorded video, Essex’s own Juhl “will take you behind the scenes to experience the cows grazing at Wilde Weide organic gouda makers in Holland and then to Fromagerie L’Amuse where Betty and Martin Koster have developed special aging cellars for locally sourced goudas like L’Amuse Gouda. You’ll travel to Italy, where Giorgio Cravero presents his Parmigiano-Reggiano aging facilities. You’ll visit Spain and the making of 1605 Manchego from that farmstead operation.”
Also, that knowledgeable Juhl will treat you to a recent tasting and selection of French Comte, showing how selectors taste and evaluate different cheeses, and there’ll be a live Q&A.
How to engage with this exceptional level of local/global cheesery? Get you a ticket now, citizen, and then you’ll pick up your cheese plate curbside (with contactless delivery into trunk) at Antonelli’s from noon-3pm this Saturday, April 4 … and hop on the video conference at 5:50pm that night.
That link again: Click here, mon ami.
Reckon this gig might sell out faster than hotcakes [note: no hotcakes involved; you’ll have enough to eat already] – but we'll quell any FOMO by reminding you that John & Kendall Antonelli have a full and ongoing schedule of other opportunities for virtual learning and actual feasting to help you get through these socially distant times.
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