Roquefort on the rocks?
According to my very reliable cheese monger, the end of roquefort as we know it may be near. Apparently, in an attempt to strike back at the EU over their policy of not importing cattle that has been genetically modified, in his last hours at bat George W raised the duty on select EU imports. One of these included a 300% increase for roquefort. The beloved cave aged french sheep’s milk cheese (and feature on our apple and celery-root salad at LPG) will now cost us Chefs somewhere between $40-$60 a pound. But at that high of a price a lot of importers will probably just forgo the hassle of worrying about such a high cost inventory item and opt for other french blue cheeses. Although, there are a lot of great blue cheeses in the world and I am not the least bit concerned about finding one to fill the hole left by Roquefort, I do know I will never be able to replace it. Maybe Mr. Obama can fix this after he fixes everything else. This will go into effect March 1st and I am going to have some sort of au revoir to Roquefort at the restaurant the last week of this month.
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