Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!q26g2000prq.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Medgya Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Butter! Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 19:39:41 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4294f459-84c3-407d-890b-4eb9354304d5@q26g2000prq.googlegroups.com> References: <20d8ba0d-ed2f-44ee-9c67-25ce6f62bbf8@1g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <067196bd-6f3d-4e37-b103-6ecfa3173db3@w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 211.132.35.61 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1220582382 8156 127.0.0.1 (5 Sep 2008 02:39:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 02:39:42 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q26g2000prq.googlegroups.com; posting-host=211.132.35.61; posting-account=Dc63sQoAAADxsPFCa-WOzJj1jv2cuN9Q User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080715 Fedora/2.0.0.16-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.16,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:167495 On Sep 5, 2:53 am, "John W." wrote: > But isn't it the age of a cheese that's important? I thought so, too, but I guess it also matters what you start out with. I've never done a "taste test" so I have no idea if it really matters, or if I'd even notice. But the same person who told me about this actually does travel internationally to sample food at specific restaurants, so either his palate is very sensitive or the Europeans just have better marketing! I did know a woman who wrote restaurant guidebooks in the US. The cool thing, apart from (inevitably) getting special treatment at certain restaurants, was that she could take a bunch of people out to a fine meal and deduct the cost of the whole thing on her taxes. It was... um... research. It does seem like a good way to go, as long as you can make enough to cover those costs.