2 Provolone vs. 6 Havarti
Update, 4/12/08: Havarti wins narrowly with 51% of the vote.Brackets now updated for the Deli draw.
Grocery and Stanke Cheese polls will stay open until Sunday. Not sure where to vote, or how to find the brackets?NCheeseAA main page — top of the TN homepage, right side.
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Havarti is the goddess of cheeses in my opinion!
Havarti is lovely in its creamy goodness – but you cannot make half the things that are necessary to live without provolone cheese. Examples: chicken parm, italian hoagies, my mom’s French onion soup.
Go Havarti! Mozz is a perfectly acceptable alternative for parm, hoagies, and French onion soup (in my humble opinion – I’m a cheesemaker’s daughter, but I don’t profess to having his ability to judge in an unbiased way). Havarti melts on your tongue like butter, and I am totally on my way to the grocery store after work to get some.
Yum.
I’m totally refreshing my browser every few minutes to see where the results are at.
@Catherine- Sing it, sister! :-)
Havarti!!
Catherine, Gruyere purists are looking askance at your mom right at this very moment.
But I’m with you philosophically. As a resident of the greater Philadelphia metro, I feel like this place would be culinarily bereft in a lot of ways without the beloved Provie. Philly, help me out here… I think an OT upset by Provolone would make me feel better about my beloved Port Salut getting its ass handed to it. By a worthy opponent and all, but still.
Oh, and Sars needs an edit button so I can get rid of one of the two uses of “totally” up there. Sorry. Havarti apparently brings out rabid exuberance from me.
I went with Havarti ’cause I’ve never seen caraway, garlic and herb, jalapeno, or dill flavored Provolone. Although Provolone has its merits, the versatility of Havarti is certainly worth a win.
…And the Lord did grin. Yay, Havarti!
I think I have to come down on the side of Havarti. There are alternatives to provolone in ways there are not alternatives to Havarti.
I love Havarti (esp. dill and caraway). I don’t know a lot of those other cheeses in the other polls though. I do love me some Blue Costello and Cambozola but they’re “stinky feet” cheeses.
Y’all can have ALL of my blue cheese. Just give me the Havarti, and nobody gets hurt.
I prefer havarti not only for the taste but also because it is cut in squares vs. the circular provolone. So havarti fits perfectly on my roast beef sandwich covering every square inch of meat.