Moonstruck Camembert

We had a few people over Saturday on an impromptu basis to watch the first game of the Stanley Cup (poor Pittsburgh). Because we’re effete West Coast New Age types, we had barbecued salmon and pita and dips and excellent white wine, and something new, a Grey Monk VQA rosé, which was not superb but perfectly OK. All this goes just fine with hockey, but because there were four toddlers and the adults barely outnumbered them, we didn’t get to see that much of the game. But the highlight was the cheese.

Cambie Street, our local shopping destination, has been ripped to shreds over the last couple of years by the Canada Line construction, but that’s dying down and the merchants are drifting back in. On the east side between 18^th and 19^th, there’s a new cheese shop, artisanal Canadian cheeses, about half from Québec. At random, I picked up a package of “Ash-Ripened Camembert” from Moonstruck Organic Cheese on Saltspring Island. It was amazingly, obscenely good. Two or three people spoke up out of the blue along the lines of “Wow, what’s that?” and everyone went back for more, that little package of soft gooey white cheese was gonzo in no time flat. Lauren said “Um, not too often please” because it’s probably like 50% fat.

Totally recommended, both the cheese and the store.

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