Straight Outta Comte: Finding France’s Best Cheese in an Underground Fort
Aaron Foster is Head Buyer at Murray’s Cheese. His relentless pursuit of all things delicious most recently led him to the mountains of France, where he discovered the… Read More
New Finds from the Old Dominion
by Sean Kelly Ask most foodies where the world’s best artisanal foods come from and the answer will often be “Europe, of course.” On the other hand, ask… Read More
Murray’s Takes a Field Trip: Twin Maple Farm
Elizabeth Chubbuck is the Associate Director of Wholesale at Murray’s Cheese. If you’ve eaten a delicious cheese at a restaurant, chances are she had a hand in getting… Read More
Rob’s Top Picks from the Cheese Festival
Every two years, Slow Food’s hometown of Bra, Italy, in the region of Piemonte, holds its annual cheese festival, and purveyors and buyers of fine cheese flock from… Read More
Everyone’s A Winner At The Vermont Cheesemakers Festival
Stephanie Butler was the grand prize winner of our Facebook contest for a trip to Vermont to attend the VT Cheesemakers Festival. She was gracious enough to contribute… Read More
Who You Callin’ A Hooligan?
by Anuradha Jayakrishnan, Head Cheesemonger at Murray’s Cheese in Grand Central Terminal Have you ever wanted to get your hands on a Hooligan? No, I don’t mean one… Read More
Murray’s Goes Global: Buffalo Will
Murray’s Grand Central Store Director, Will Whitlow, took a trip this October to Salone del Gusto in Northern Italy. On his trip he made a stop at Quattro Portoni, one of Italy’s premier water buffalo farms.
From the farm to your screen: A taste of Ireland’s Ardrahan
This fall, Murray’s is jumping the pond to find the next big cheese! Our staff are popping in on cheesemakers and artisan food producers all over Ireland, Spain,… Read More
Murray’s Does the VT Cheesemaker’s Festival
by Tim Erdmann There isn’t too much that can draw me out of my apartment at seven o’clock on a Saturday morning. Promises of coffee and the cheese… Read More
Murray’s Sojourns at Nettle Meadow Farm
I had been looking forward to this Whey-cation for weeks. I literally dream about the farm’s famous bloomy-rinded, milky, oozy, sweet and just-tangy-enough goat and Jersey cow milk cheese, Kunik. Well, at least I had the night before the trip.
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. 
