Ah, the food. I’m sure I’ll have plenty to say about the food over the course of the year. We have already had lovely sandwiches on baguettes, croissants and brioches for breakfast, and Neopolitan-style pizza for dinner last night. We have tried a number of cookies masquerading as chocolate chip. None have, in fact, been classic American chocolate chip cookies, but they’ve been delicious nonetheless. (Instead of semi-sweet chocolate, they tend to use bittersweet dark chocolate, which makes a noticeable difference. There also seems to be a distinct lack of brown sugar.) We’ve gotten ourselves set up to make iced tea at home, so our frequency of Starbucks visits will likely go down.
We do not have any interesting cheese adventures to report yet. There is a dairy co-op on the ground floor of our apartment building, but it’s closed for the month of August. (Many things are closed.) I am hoping that it turns out to be a good source for local cheeses. So far, we’ve just picked up some cheese at the grocery store, which has been fine, but not spectacular.
Finally, let me mention some oddities we have encountered: the take-out pizza place that doesn’t open until 7:30pm and the ice cream shop that closes at 7:45pm. I think literally the only time I have ever been to an ice cream shop in my life has been after dinner, so the combination of 7:30pm opening for dinner and 7:45pm closing for dessert seems a strange choice from that perspective. The strangest? The bagel shop that doesn’t open until 10am. (Update: It's horrible.)
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