Speaking of cooking shows, here's a great bunch of French Alpine recipes from Laura Calder

Can you get raclette? Comte? I can't believe it wouldn't be just as delicious

with any good Swiss cheese. The show was great--they made tartiflette for 60 people at a ski resort, outdoors in a huge iron pan.

No contest, no ticking clock, no "reality" interviews.

 
You could also substitue Fontina or Port Salut. No Trader Joe's in your neck of the woods?

Scardello, The Mozzarella Company or Lucky Layla Farms should have something that would work for you.

 
I had seen it made on another show a long time ago & thought it looked so decadent.

When it comes to cheese i am seriously into decadent.

 
I wish your TJs would hurry too

Any projected date announced. I'm getting itchy to make a trip to Dallas.

 
Me too. I only buy Parmasean there. It's the one cheese that I don't

care how much it costs. Well, I do but it has to be really good. Takes less to get the flavor you want so that makes up for the price right?

 
O, have you noticed anything with the Whole Foods Parmigiano-Reggiano?

I've been buying it for 10 years and for the first time EVER, it's getting mold on it.

I have to keep scraping it off each time I use it. None of the other cheeses in the drawer are having this problem and I've been buying this same cheese for years (it's the one that has the words Parmigiano-Reggiano in pin holes on the skin.)

 
Maybe...I always take it out of the plastic wrapping and shrink

wrap it with the Food Saver. Last time I didn't do it and when I used it a week or so later it had some mold on it. I chocked it up to not being wrapped properly. Do you use a sealer/air removal system? I use it with all my cheese and it lasts so long so I don't think there is any problem with the cheese.

 
No...no special processing. Just wrap and bag after it's been opened; been working for a decade.

Kills me to scrap off mold when this stuff is so expensive to start out with.

 
Ironically, some of their stuff is priced the lowest of any store in a ten-block radius, here.

Cheap items like peanut butter, pasta, milk (well, relatively cheap) are all cheaper at the WF in our neighborhood than in nearly any other supermarket in a ten-block radius. I'm no economist, but, clearly, when they have a 68,000-square-foot store, they can afford to undercut everyone else... Prices at other chains, with drastically less square footage and much smaller corporate support/infrastructure, are forced to mark up each item colossally just to get by.

Which is why rents near Trader Joe's and Fairway (probably the closest direct competitors to WF in Manhattan in terms of store size and corporate support) are ridiculously high. If we moved twenty blocks uptown, we'd pay a lot more in rent--but we'd probably save overall (not just on cheap items) in grocery costs.

/brought to you by the random speculations of an English major who never took an Economics course... smileys/wink.gif

 
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