Cheddar Gorging
p. 89 · Read in the full issue
There’s more to a piece of cheese than meets the zye —unless the eye belongs to someone like Mr Charles Plenty. Mr Plenty comes from the lovely little cathedral :ity of Wells, in Somerset, so the cheese he really knows about is, of course, Cheddar. When I chatted with him, he was deftly cutting up a 60 lb cheese which, he 'old me after studying its texture, was made in August.
He has been dealing with Cheddar cheese for nearly half 2 century, and assured me he can tell the month in which 2 cheese has been made. Best of all, he says, is June — 'when conditions are just right with regard to grass for he cow.”