As we hurtle into the frantic final weeks before Christmas, there’s much to be said for the appeal of convenience. If you’re buying your dad the gift of a new dressing gown, it’s hard to resist the sweet, sweet ease of clicking a few buttons and waiting for a tracking link to arrive. But there are times when old-fashioned retail, the kind that involves you actually putting on shoes, simply cannot be bettered, however inconvenient it might seem.
Furnishing your Christmas cheeseboard is, I would argue, firmly in that category. If you’re lucky enough to live within reach of a cheesemonger's – and particularly Borough Market, with the finest concentration of cheese sellers anywhere in the country – the effort involved in making that trip will be rewarded many times over, in both quality of food and richness of experience. Here’s why.
