A welcome repeat present this Christmas was a pot of Fortnum and Mason’s stilton cheese. It came in an elegant ceramic jar with a lid. Under the wax disc inside was the blue-veined cheese that is reckoned by some to be England’s finest. In mid-morning, a couple of hours after my first breakfast of porage with maple syrup, I often eat a croissant with cheese. Each time I scrape off some of the bluish surface of the stilton to spread, and each time more blue has grown to replace it. It has a very powerful taste which lingers in the mouth and tends to overpower anything you have with it. Mmm. It is completely delicious.
[...] Stilton jars seem to be this years’ hit item for cheese lovers, and pop up everywhere. Madsen, ahead of the game, had one last year. Inside the ceramic jar, creamy stilton is trapped under a layer of wax. One breaks this seal, and a few days later finds the most delicious blue cheese. [...]