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Monday, June 11, 2007

COUNTDOWN TO BLOOMSDAY
Who the hell ate cheese in Ulysses?
And check out the price.




'Ripe for the Moment

The entirety of James Joyce’s Ulysses takes place on June 16th, a date that now commemorates the author, as well as his main character, Leopold Bloom. To celebrate Bloomsday next Saturday, pints will be a-pouring from Dublin to Brooklyn as Joyceans frolic, and at the market, Cato Corner will be cutting perfectly aged, caramel-sweet, crumbly wedges of their raw-milk, year-old Bloomsday cheese. If you neglected to celebrate National Grilled Cheese Month (April), kill two birds with this recipe. ($26 per pound for the year-old Bloomsday, $21 per pound for the regularly available six-month Bloomsday, at Cato Corner, available Saturday).'



--- new york magazine ---

(Yeah, fine, Bloom eats a Gorgonzola cheese sandwich in Lestrygonians...)