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Q J Med 2002; 95: 133
© 2002 Association of Physicians

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The professor of cheese

John Launer

The most self-important person I have ever met was the proprietor of a cheese shop. He wasn't hostile, like the famous cheese salesman portrayed by John Cleese in the television sketch. He behaved more as if he was a professor of cheese studies at Oxbridge. If you named a cheese, he would hold forth on its history, its bacteriology, its merits and its drawbacks. He didn't sell Gorgonzola, only ‘Mountain Gorgonzola’. I once asked him if he stocked . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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