Portland cheesemonger-author-epicure Sasha Davies recently opened Cyril’s at Clay Pigeon Winery, a cheese shop-restaurant in the city’s cool inner-Southeast neighborhood. And now, in a brainstorm of epic proportions, she’s launched a project called Community Supported Cheese on Kickstarter.
Here’s what it’s about: many of the world’s greatest cheeses are only available in relatively huge wheels. But small cheesemongers can’t afford to make an investment in a big wheel that might not sell quickly enough. So customers can commit to buying a pound of a selected cheese, and if enough folks opt in, she invests in the wheel. And of course the cheese club members get invited to a fun party where Sasha breaks up the wheel and serves tastes and other goodies. (If not enough people buy in, the counter goes back to zero and she tries again next month.) It’s a neat idea.
This month’s choice is L’Amuse Gouda from Holland, one of those awesome aged Goudas that tastes like a meeting between butterscotch and fine sherry and yummy cheese, with the crispy tyrosamine crystals that a few aged cheeses develop. Yum.
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