Reported on Chekhov’s Mistress:
“Heather Ramsdell, a copywriter who lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, argued with an acquaintance at a dinner party recently when he cold-shouldered the goat cheese chevrot and questioned her taste when she said she didn’t like Humboldt Fog, a goat cheese from Cypress Grove in California. “He needed to enforce his tiny little cheese wisdom on us all,” she said.”
I know Heather personally, she rocks, her cooking rocks AND I’m sure she’s right.
I just called my friendly fromagier, and he added that Humboldt Fog is a soft ripened pasturized goats milk cheese with vegetable ash in the middle, made by a woman named Mary Keehn in Mckinley California.
Not everyone loves the goat, and really, when there are so many cheeses in the world, why argue! I’m sure the cheese served was lovely, and as a guest, one should always be respectful of their host, who is providing for them.