Run, Cheese Boy, Run!
By Steve Millard As the Store Director of our Greenwich Village shop, I get asked lots of questions every day. Questions like “Do you have any raw milk… Read More
I Fell In Love With Goat Cheese at Prairie Fruits Farm
… and now you can, too! By Deena Siegelbaum I came to work at Murray’s Cheese because of my love for slow food – and my… Read More
What’s in a Name? Pawlet from Consider Bardwell
By Robert S Rupert isn’t the only cheese from Consider Bardwell that’s creating buzz around Murray’s. The recent arrival of Pawlet has our mongers going crazy! … Read More
NEW CHEESE ON THE BLOCK: RUPERT!
by Sydney Willcox, head monger at Murray’s Cheese West Village Everyone is talking about Rupert! Rupert has just arrived at our shop and is causing a lot of… Read More
New Cheese! Bossa from Green Dirt Farm
By James Fairbrother James is a summer intern at Murray’s who’ll be regularly entertaining you with cheesy tidbits all summer long. When he’s not tasting new cheeses, he… Read More
Kidding Season: Why now is the time for fresh goat cheese
by Grace Mitchell We all know it because of our own human experience: animals only produce milk after they give birth to their young. It’s easy, however, to… Read More
The Brie Syndrome
by Rob Kaufelt Brie is in the air, or at least in the news - see The New York Times. What is old is new again this spring, in… Read More
Going underground
By Sascha Ingram In case you hadn’t noticed, cheese people tend to get pretty passionate, verging on fanatical, about their cheese. The next time you ask your cheesemonger… Read More
A Tale of Two Piggies: The Heritage Difference
by Louise Geller If like me, you grew up finding pork largely unimpressive, it’s time to take a second look at what it was meant to be. In… Read More
This March we’re mad for…Oma
By Liz Thorpe In the summer of 2009 I finally found Waitsfield, Vermont and the meandering driveway that led to the Von Trapp dairy farm. That was after… Read More

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. 



