Up until now I had been quite satisfied serving cheese on a good old fashioned dinner plate, or any other flat surfaced item found laying around. I also thought it was pretty frivolous spending our hard earned cashola on an unnecessary piece of kitchenware. Then I cleaned out my car and found $41 dollars in change strewn about. To the cheese board store we go!
It was $17 bucks, which left us plenty of car-change for...CHEESE! Hooray!!
As it turns out there is no cheese board store, per se. Instead, we visited a few kitchenware stores to feel out the market for a proper cheese-serving surface.
First, we looked on Amazon.com, which is well known to carry and sell anything you can possibly think of, and in several color choices! This is when we learned that cheese boards are expensive! The stone boards (typically made of slate or marble) can be $75 or more. Yeesh!
We also learned that cheese boards are often bundled with cheese serving tools so we decided to look for one of these, as opposed to just a slab of wood or something equally as mundane.
Bed Bath and Beyond also carries a wide array of cheese boards, but the prices are a bit higher than on Amazon. The good thing about BB+B is that you can handle your cheese board before you buy it: is it too big, too small? Does it function appropriately? Will it be easy to clean? And so forth...
Finally, after a fine day spent hiking and visiting farm stands we decided to stop by the town of Solvang, CA, a wonderful little tourist-trap Danish town on the central coast. I remembered seeing several funky home-ware stores and thought we should poke around a bit.
After only a half-hour browsing the stores we found what we were looking for at Solvang Vinhus, a cool little shop in the heart of town specializing in European foods, wine, and CHEESE!!! (more on the cheese in a later post)
They had a great selection of cheese boards and tools, at very reasonable prices.
And, this is what we got:
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| Picnic Time Brie cutting board |
-Alan
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