"Sqwertz" > wrote in message ...
| On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:31:52 -0500, pavane wrote:
|
| > Right. I was not disagreeing, just providing a window into
| > Whole Foods, which at one time was a major retailer of Neal's
| > Yard in the US.
|
| I didn't know Neals Yard was just a marketer and distributor until
| now. I thought they were the producer. Kinda like Certified Angus
| Beef - it comes from many different producers never identified
| individually?
|
| According to their cheese page, there is only one Stilton - Colton
| Basset. Now I'm even more confused.
|
| http://www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk/cheeses.html
|

That is the only one Neal's Yard sells. There are five other blue
stiltons:
http://www.stiltoncheese.com/the_stilton_producers
There are also the white stiltons, either plain (think sweetened
cottage cheese) or imbued with cranberries, mango, walnuts,
whatever the hell these people feel like putting into it. Most of
the white stiltons have added preservatives; none of the blue
stiltons do.

Neal's Yard is indeed a marketer and distributor. But the efforts
they have made to improve the cheeses, and in some cases to
re-introduce cheeses that might otherwise have remained extinct,
particularly the British goat cheeses, are extraordinary. They
usually have exclusivity to the marketing of these cheeses, and
good for them as they have financed the re-birth of the cheeses.

Borough Market is very very good...but it is more a retailer (what
I would give for a Borough Market outlet nearby!) but their
functions are different.

pavane