More and more cheese nerds in New York are obsessing over affinage, the art/act of ripening cheese in temperature controlled caves, and these "caves" are popping up all over town. The cheese buyer at Fairway calls affinage a bunch of phooey, but in a blind taste test his cheeses scored far lower than the babied cheeses from Murray's and Artisanal. [NYT]
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