Food, glorious food

[delphipsmith]

In Philadelphia on a business trip. Went to Talula's Garden for dinner.

In the words of George Takei: "Oh, my."

Among other things they are famous for their cheese plates*, so I had the World Traveler:

Cana de Cabra (Goat, Spain)
Handmade Sheep’s Milk Feta (Sheep, Greece)
Clyde Weaver Vintage Quebec Cheddar (Cow, Canada)
Vintage Gouda (Cow, Holland)
Chimay (Cow, Belgium)
Délice de Bourgogne (Cow, France)
Scharfe Maxx (Cow, Switzerland)
Neal’s Yard Daily Aged Stilton (Cow, England)**

::dies of cheesy ecstasy::

Then there was potato-broccoli soup and baked bluefish with gnocchi. Plus it's one of those places where every so often they bring you little surprise presents from the kitchen -- amuse bouches I believe they're called -- so I'm slurping my soup, trying to stifle my moans of culinary ecstasy in case I disturb the people at the other table, and suddenly at my elbow appears a plate with two little tiny warm doughnut/cream-puff things with pumpkin-cinnamon butter. NOMZ!!!

I am as full as a tick...

* but I have to say, the word "cheesemonger" totally makes me larf
** No, there was no Venezuelan beaver cheese. I checked.

Comments

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

Have you tried stinking bishop?

[delphipsmith]

Ha! No, but now I want to. Is it really a thing??

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

Oh it is so a thing. You can smell it across a crowded restaurant. It's amazing stuff.

Tastes nice too.

I'd suggest you try Reblochon too but you can't get that in the US which is a crying shame. It's even stinkier but has a delicate, mild taste. It's an experience.


I quite like a nice mild white stilton.

[delphipsmith]

Reblochon looks yummy -- curse you, FDA!!

Regarding stinking bishop, Wikipedia sez: "The cheese was brought to international attention by a brief but important role in the Oscar-winning 2005 animated film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, in which it was used to revive Wallace from the dead. Demand for the cheese subsequently rose by 500%."

*snort*