2024 has perhaps been the year that reminded some that artisan cheese has always been both a high quality and high cost thing. The Neal’s Yard cheese heist, where a large amount was stolen by persons still unknown underlined the point.
There is a history to it as well. While the radical Tory reformer William Cobbett often wrote of enjoying bread and cheese on his travels around the English countryside in the 1820s, an alternative reality was that two cheesemongers rode with the Yeomanry at Peterloo on August 16th 1819
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