Don’t forget National Cheese Lover’s Day

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Inauguration Day is barely dawning, and some of us already have Inauguration Fatigue — soon to be added to the DSM-V as a sub-category of Cynical Personality Disorder — thanks to the wall-to-wall ‘news’ coverage.

It’s the end of eight years of Republicanism. It’s the middle of a horrific recession. Barack Obama is the first African American president of the United States. I get it. But this whole ‘historic presidential inauguration’ thing has overshadowed a lesser-known holiday. Jan. 20, in addition to being Inauguration Day, is National Cheese Lover’s Day.

What cheese tastes good with a new president? How about smoked mozzarella, good old American cheese or a thematic array of blue cheese, white cheddar and Edam (covered in red wax, of course). If you want to take the inauguration to a much cheesier level, pick up a brick of Barick Obama (that’s not a misspelling), a washed-rind, cow’s milk cheese made by Vermont’s Lazy Lady Farm. At $24 a pound it’s not cheap, but it is fresher than Lazy Lady’s Tomme de Lay or Condisend.

— Elina Shatkin