That’s Linda in the center, who owns and runs Jumpstart Farms. We had her over for dinner a few weeks ago, and she must have noticed that we didn’t have any cheese knives—only paring knives and steak knives with which to stab the cheese.

This gives you one tiny example of what a fun person she is: We met at Los Poblanos last night for drinks, and she brought one of those flannel Crown Royal bags full of cheese knives. She said we could choose our favorites.

When our cheese plate was delivered, I decided I wanted to use my new cheese knife. When we got home I was horrified to discover I had left mine at the bar. I had to call Los Poblanos late last night and ask them to please look for it.

This morning they called to say they had found it! (Mine was the 3rd from the left and is now safe in its new home.)