21-05-2025
It's the latest boast: I have a cheese grotto
Where do you stand on grottoes? I don't mean the small cave-like places adorned with seashells — I mean, weird: why would you have an opinion about those? — or indeed the tinsel-strewn garden sheds where men in fake beards pretend to hang out in the run-up to Christmas. No, we're talking cheese grottoes, which are apparently the ultimate accessory for the cheddar-loving classes. Sous Chef, the online larder for epicureans, has recently highlighted them as a 'hero' product, and there's an entire website, dedicated to them.
Their popularity seems to have swept across the Atlantic from the land of the Swiss slice. Oprah Winfrey, not content with foisting on us the ludicrously overhyped Our Place Always Pan, is advocating a small wooden
