A Whole Wheel of Cheese

Yes, that's right! Someone overheard my incessant complaining about a lack of cheese in my town of Hanzhong and suggested I visit cheeseinchina.com, a site about cheese in...tun tun TUN...China. It's a small operation that makes Gouda from old Dutch recipes (hopefully drug-free) and using only organic blah blah blah milk from happy not-from-California Chinese cows

They don't have a distributor in my town so I will make the 4-hour trip north to Xi'an next Monday to meet with the distributor up there and buy a small wheel of plain Gouda and a small wheel of some other type. I'm also going to take advantage and buy some mustard and olives, which I've been unable to find here (It's terrible when you find yourself making a delicious pasta salad but are missing cheese, olives, and mustard! No emulsifier= bad vinaigrette!!)

On another exciting food note: after 4 weeks I was finally able to find non-sweet bread!!! It's been so disappointing going out and buying a loaf of sliced bread, getting the cheese (okay, we have cheese here but it's like a crappy version of American cheese) and ham out, making a sandwich and gagging at the first bite when I realize the bread is SWEET. Well, I finally found a store that sells baguettes and they're actually pretty good.

Next week I feast on real cheese and real bread!