Our Top 5 Beach Cheese Picks
Sum-sum-summertime! Beach season is officially here, and at Murray’s we’ve got one thing on our mind when packing a picnic for those epic days in the sun: Cheese!… 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.
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. 
