A couple of finds

Today I was traveling around DC looking to see what I could spot in teas and cheeses, and was pleased to find a couple of cheeses I was not expecting. I'd read of the existence of a blue version of the English Cheshire cheese, but had not been able to find it for sale in this country except by Internet order (and that involves paying for shipping, so I tend to avoid that for things like this). But today I saw "Appleby Cheshire," visibly a blue cheese, on sale at Dean & DeLuca in Georgetown. Now, Dean & DeLuca tends to be overpriced, and I could see other cheeses in the case that I regularly buy at Whole Foods Market at prices a few dollars per pound higher than WFM charges, but I had no option if I wanted to try it. So I bought some — actually, more than I wanted to, because I usually want to buy something like that in ¼-pound amounts, and the man at the counter didn't want to try to cut ¼ pound from a piece of slightly more than a third of a pound that he had there, since it tends to be a crumbly cheese, and therefore I had to buy the whole piece. Then after that I was in Eastern Market, which has a cheese shop called Bowers, and I saw a white Stilton with apricots. (White Stilton, actually has little to do with blue Stilton, which I think is one of the greatest cheeses in the world; however, I've had white Stilton with various fruits in it and it works very well, so I wanted this. I had not been able to buy those fruit-mixed white Stiltons for a while — Giant used to carry them, but stopped.) So that was another buy I had to make! (I also bought some tea today, but nothing I want to describe here today.)