On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Christian PERRIER <bubu...@debian.org> wrote: > Quoting Clint Adams (sch...@debian.org): >> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:39:35PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: >> > Please note that it is very likely that I switch the Cheese and Wine >> > party into a "Beers of the World" party or "My Beer Is Better Than >> > Yours" party. >> >> Not both? > > > After a long discussion with Jimmy on IRC, he convinced me that we can > probably still manage to import some "decent" cheese through US > customs. > > What's definitely OK are "fully cured cheese". Of course, the given > examples are emmenthal, parmesan, etc. While being definitely good > cheeses when carefully chosen, these do not fit my own definition of > decent cheese (that are closer to stinky pieces of "half-cured" > cheese: camembert is the most known example, but we can mention > Epoisses, Maroilles, Reblochon, Roquefort, several of my pet goat > cheeses.....I guess all these fit in the "half-cured" category as > defined by US customs...."half-cured" being where the line is drawn, > more or less). > > Information is really hard to get. Of course, official information > exists but is non intelligible to standard humans. So, you're left > with information floating around and, finally, to the decision of the > customs officer is you check the "import food" box on the "194w" form. > > I'm ready to try importing my own usual kilogram of "decent" > cheese. The question becomes: will enough other people be able to do > the same? From my experience, quite few and that can be not enough for > a good cheese party. > > Apparently, though, finding good (read french, italian, swiss...) > cheese in NYC could be possible as long as one spots the right > shop. So a good help from the local crowd would be by trying to find > the good address where people could be directed to if they want to > contribute to the C&W party....but didn't bring the required > material. Something close enough to Columbia would be perfect. This is > New York City, I guess that can be done. > > Still, I think that adding a "Beer Of The World And Mine Is Better > Than Yours" option is certainly a good way to make it better...and > that fits the recent actuality of a certain mailing list which we > shouldn't leak about here.
Try: http://www.zabars.com/cheese-department/CHEESE_DEPARTMENT,default,pg.html (distance from Columbia ~36 short blocks, and a few subway stops, south of venue) There are also a couple of other shops closer that I am less familiar with. -Brian _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
