How Boursin Taught Me What Cheese Could Be
I’d never heard of Boursin—everyone’s favorite “fancy cheese” (After all, it’s French!)—until college. Those “little herb-spiked, foil-wrapped, popular dollops that cost over $1 in most stores [but] go for 98 cents at Zabar's,” as New York Magazine noted in 1973, weren’t in my refrigerator. My working class town on Long Island didn’t have a Zabar’s. My grandfather did the food shopping at Food Town, where he regularly scored our Cracker Barrel (and Wheat Thins crackers, to eat it with). …