I have lived overseas many times, even prior to the foreign service. Some of those times, I lived in places without access to cheeses normally found in the USA. Somehow, at those times, it never bothered me (perhaps because I was never in charge of cooking during those times, i.e. student days when my meals came from a canteen and I didn't have to worry about figuring recipes that strayed from what I knew and were comprised only of local ingredients?) In any case, the lack of cheddar cheese has been affecting my family more strongly than we ever would have guessed.
And then we learned that cheddar can actually be shipped safely. It does not need to maintain refrigerated temperature (if you don't believe me, check out this scholarly tome from the University of Wisconsin. These are people who know cheese)!
After five months without a decent cheese, we learned that some ship cheddar through regular pouch. When it arrives, it is normally 100% fine. We tried it with a 2lb block purchased off Amazon. It arrived this week. Those of us who could have cheese gorged. The next morning Zoltan asked for cheese and crackers for breakfast. Oh, how did we manage before now?
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