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Photo Courtesy of La Fauxmagerie<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a pocket-size caf\u00e9 painted to evoke the mottled mold exterior of a natural rind, I savored the cheeses laid out in front of me: a creamy, smoky, ash-coated cheese called Minerthreat; delicately-veined Baby Blue that was tangy, piquant, and earthy; and a bold, garlicky, and highly-Instagrammable black cheese, aptly named Nerominded. The trio was presented on the menu as the Esoteric, along with other cheese lineups such as the Traditionalist, the Vampire Slayer, and the Levantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All three of these cheeses were as intriguing on the palate as they were visually\u2014the textures and flavors on par with some of the best cheese plates of my dairy-obsessed existence. All, it must be said, were vegan. Because this plate at La Fauxmagerie<\/a>, my first foray into plant-based cheese, exceeded my expectations, I waved my server down. \u201cI\u2019m not going to finish,\u201d I told her, apologetically. And then by means of asking for forgiveness, I said, \u201cso I can try as many cheeses as possible.\u201d What followed was a parade of vegan cheese excess. Familiar cultures such as Penicillium roqueforti <\/em>and Geotrichum candidum <\/em>joined forces with cashew, coconut, and almond bases for a cheese feast that could make Aristaeus himself swoon. My only regret, despite the unnatural number of plates I ordered for my solo table, is that I couldn\u2019t justify the baked Camemvert\u2014rendered oozy by means of shea butter\u2014that was indicated \u201cfor two\u201d on the menu. What would it have mattered, I wonder now, when I had already enthusiastically partaken for five?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

London, to me, has always been the pinnacle of urban cheese tourism. From the myriad stalls at Borough Market to legendary Neal\u2019s Yard Dairy to any of Mathew Carver\u2019s playful cheese caf\u00e9s (Fondue on a barge! Cheese plates on a conveyor belt!), I\u2019ve never left London without a memorable cheese experience. La Fauxmagerie proved no exception, and it\u2019s a spot I\u2019d introduce to cheese lovers of any ilk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Admittedly, my only prior association with vegan cheese was complaints from formerly omnivorous, now vegan, friends who bemoaned the inability of vegan grocery store shreds to melt like the original. Without a dietary or moral obligation to motivate me, vegan cheese was simply something I\u2019d had no need for. La Fauxmagerie, in London\u2019s ultra-hip Shoreditch neighborhood, only became a blip on my radar when a vegan friend in London, knowing I was cheese-inclined, asked whether I was familiar. Here was a vegan cheese retailer, he explained, so provocative in its very existence it incited the wrath of the UK\u2019s dairy industry when it opened. Naturally, for the sake of journalism, I had to see what all the plant-based fuss was about. The experience was not only pleasurable, but a much-needed lesson: Just like its dairy brethren, vegan cheese is better represented in its artisanal form than its industrial one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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