the aesthetics of dairy

The look of dairy is sublime. The thing itself whether milk in a glass, a pitcher, or a vat; the shapes of cheese wheels, bricks, bouches, tommes; the inner glow of cantal; the same piece as it ages and grows in character, color, density; the forms, baskets, molds that hold curd and make upon it shapes that define style and texture; to look upon a range of farmstead cheeses stacked and piled in an edible naturescape; well-crafted salumis hanging from dowels, slowly weeps and whitens, patiently in wait for the final cut.