About cheese. 6 March 2008 7:07 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cheese, vegan, vegetarian, meta, eating, friends , 5 commentsDear vegan and otherwise lactose- or milk-intolerant readers: I know this post will probably not interest you, but check out the Post-Punk Kitchen’s pizza party post for news about (and pictures of) exciting developments in non-dairy cheese technology!
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When I think about all the reasons I’m not (a) vegan (full disclosure: I think I prefer it as an adjective rather than a noun), eggs and cheese always end up fighting for the top spot on the list. I love them both so much that I’m really not sure which one I love more. (And I love them together, like in omelets, fritattas, or even plain ol’ fried egg sandwiches, but I digress.) Nor am I alone in my love, and it makes me really happy that good cheese is important to so many people. The other day Allison and I were chatting about nothing in particular, and we both spontaneously and independently mentioned cheese as something we’d spend a lot more money on if we had room for it in our respective budgets. I also know a few people who consider cheese their secret guilty food pleasure, like despite being relatively not-neurotic about their diets cheese is the one thing they feel they eat too much of, or can’t quite be comfortable about liking so much, or they can’t quite consider themselves vegan because they eat cheese, just every now and then, sort of the way I consider myself not even vegetarian despite the fact that the vast majority of my meals qualify me for the label. Anyway, all these thoughts have me pondering the possibility of a regular cheese feature for TracyFood, “Cheese of the Month” or something like that. What say you, readers?
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