Azure Skies and Snowy-white Rinds
by Caitlin Griffith At your next party – perhaps even celebrating the warm weather streak that we hope is here to stay – you absolutely need to serve… Read More
History Lesson: Where Did Cheese Come From?
In our very first comic by the one and only Figbar, we explore the mysterious origins of our favorite foodstuff: CHEESE.

Murray Greenberg (never met him; he died before I got here) was a Jewish Spanish civil war veteran and communist who opened a wholesale butter and egg shop a few doors up Cornelia street in 1940. The old timers tell me that even though he was an old leftie, he was still a street smart capitalist who used to buy cheese cheap and trim it and sell it. 




