Gordon, I have no idea why you think I should pay any mind to your opinions on cheese, given that (1) you have not done a valid empirical study of cheeses and (2) you lack the PhD in cheesemaking that is a prerequisite to any serious, cutting-edge study of cheese.

Does Gordon have a full-time job teaching people how to make cheese, and does he write academic articles about cheese-making?

One thing in the cheese realm that I have over most PhDs who write about law: I have actually eaten cheese. Lots of it.

Remember what Roman Jacobson, a former famed chair of the Harvard's Slavic department said when someone told him to hire Vladimir Nabokov because "Nabokov is a big writer." Jacobson said: "Elephant is a big animal too, but we aren’t hiring him to be a zoology professor."

In other words, being able to do a certain activity does not make one a scholar of that activity. But I am willing to make an exception for wine and cheese.

Hey, did you just call me fat? ;-)

A good Russian girl never says “fat”. She says “towering”.

Congrats, Gordon -- this is the longest comment stream you've ever generated on one of your cheese postings. It's too bad none of it was a substantive discussion of cheese (assuming there can be such a thing).