June 14, 2006

Cowgirl Creamery

When I was in San Francisco last spring, I ate the best fromage blanc I have had on this side of the Atlantic at the Cowgirl Creamery in the ferry building. A few weeks ago, I noticed that the Cowgirl Creamery was planning to open up a store in D.C. this summer and no fewer than two Friends of Crescat tipped me off that it opened yesterday. Today I dashed there for lunch.

The store is still getting up-and-running; they have not yet made arrangements with local dairies, so the chesses that they make themselves are shipped by refrigerated truck from California; the others come from assorted farms. They are outstanding. The fromage blanc might have been just a smidgen less ethereal, although it might have been my imagination. The constant bliss lived up to its name; the everona was sharp and rich, almost like sheep's milk parmesan. [All of their soft cheeses are also very good; see here and here. A correspondent also relates good things about the Mt. Tam and the Red Hawk.]

The place also sells baguettes from Breadline, probably the best commercial boulangerie within the district. Apparently the creamery once made ice cream but it appears to be gone these days, alas.

Anyway, the Washington Post's Tom Sietsema reportedly praised the place in an online chat today, but I have yet to see mention of this on Chowhound D.C.. Go now.

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An epidemic of flag burning

I confess that I can't really join in the Drezner-Sanchez objection to the ubiquitous proposed flag-burning amendment. They point out (like President Bartlett) that the amendment seems rather silly, since it's not as if there's an epidemic of flag-burning in this country that needs to be addressed. There wouldn't be any substantial threat of an epidemic of compulsorily-quartered soldiers if the Third Amendment were repealed, either, but that's hardly grounds to jettison the thing.

So what if there were an epidemic of flag burningg? I think the amendment can be opposed on its merits (which Julian gets into towards the end of his post). We are a great country. Part of what makes it great is our willingness to permit-- as a matter of bedrock constitutional right, not mere legislative grace-- even the virulent, incoherent, and fiercely offensive criticism of the powers that be.

A country does not get better by grinding down those who yell at it. It just gets quieter.

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