Parm Reggiano

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$10.49/lb. at Costco.

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They're selling wedges a bit over a pound and a half @ $10.49/lb. $18-ish total range.

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May 4, 2017 10:31:31 GMT -5 @kelliers said:

$10.49/lb. at Costco.

      thats a very good price.   alas, i dont have a membership.

   i bought a wedge from sams (9.98/lb).  web reviews from customers on sams website said its good.  ill give it a few months and then see if it remains un-moldy and good without refrigeration in the vacuum seal (the chunk from whole foods did get moldy, but its scrape-offable and only on the surface).

    i think a lot, like that old twilight zone episode, of robbing the supermarket and stealing an entire wheel of cheese.  i wouldnt, but i sure like to think about it. 
 
   by the way, the grated shit is packed with cellulose as filler. most of the time, too, it is not real parm reggiano.  thats why the price is cheap.


   fred, you like brie? that le petit brie is excellent.  definitely worth a try.

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Love brie on Ak-Mak. I'll have to get some le petit.
Don't like grated parm. I like my parm like I likes my women - shaved.

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May 4, 2017 21:06:20 GMT -5 @kelliers said:

Love brie on Ak-Mak. I'll have to get some le petit.
Don't like grated parm. I like my parm like I likes my women - shaved.

   try the le-petit brand.  its superior by far.  until then, i thought nothing of brie.

   i dont like grated parm, either.  thats sawdust.   i like big chunks-- like cwgs women.

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I don't know what the wife gets as far as brie. I just eat it on Armenian flat bread (Ak-Mak) and it's good chit, maynard. Throw in some toscano salami on real sourdough (I do live near SF) baguette slices and I'm in mastication heaven.
We have some outstanding local cheese factories here in Marin/Sonoma counties. Plus the wine. I can't even count how many wineries I've been involved in here in CA, either new construction or expansions. Gotta be well over a hundred.
Here's one that's at the end of Dry Creek Valley below the Lake Sonoma dam near Healdsburg. Sure was a lot easier designing and getting approval from the county back in those days...
prestonfarmandwinery.com/

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nice scenery there.

ive got no response to the accompaniments to cheese. i eat it straight.
i quit eating wheat and most grains a few years ago, dont drink, and have been vegetarian for... 10 years or so.

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Is cheese vegetarian?

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May 4, 2017 22:47:49 GMT -5 @kelliers said:

Is cheese vegetarian?

 
      great question.

    vegan:  eating anything except animal products.  excludes honey, eggs, dairy products, meat.   milk and therefore cheese, is similar to blood.

   vegetarian:  no meat/animal products.  eggs and dairy:  ok, since i *think* the philosophy is that the animals are not being harmed/killed.  technically, youll accidentally kill a few bees when you smoke em and collect the supers filled with honey (its pretty much unpreventable if youve ever had an apiary-- even if you are smoking the hell out of them youll get a few that will be crushed or die stinging your suit).  its as if the vegans are jains-- great philosophy, but it just doesnt work out in this world.  humans need animal protein in some form to be completely healthy.  vegans bodies are doomed to break down after awhile and become sick from nutritional deficiencies whereas those that consume an animal protein (raw milk, butter, yogurt, cheese, etc for vegetarians) will be fine. 
   this is another reason why we could be in hell living on a planet where such a supposedly advanced species like ourselves is forced to consume and prey (parasitize, at best) upon another living entity in order to survive (to say nothing of eating plants, which apparently feel pain -- q.v. the old 70s documentary, the secret life of plants on youtube).
  its complicated to eat consciously, but intent, IMO, plays the biggest role.  if one is a vegetarian for strictly health reasons and not for humane reasons, then things are certainly more simpler.

 

   cheese, as you know, can be made with animal or vegetable rennet.  as long as the cheese is made with vegetable rennet, its vegetarian.  one can also make cheese without rennet at all, but youll never get swiss or gouda or asiago without the rennet to set it.  youll get the farmers cheese or queso blanco-- high on health, low on flavor. 
   i always say that milk does not go bad-- it only changes forms.  this is true as long as the milk is not pasteurized.  the raw milk goes from milk to clabbered milk to yogurt to cheese without refrigeration as long as insects dont get to it.   as you know, raw milk is great for you-- a true superfood.  pasteurized milk is toxic, mucous producing junk. 

   the le petit brie and the parma both are made with animal rennet, so neither are vegetarian.  i eat both, though from time to time... so... maybe i should revise my earlier statement about being a vegetarian.  im mostly vegetarian.