Texas Cheese House: MMMM!!!

On our way to see Emma's play in Waco, we stopped at the Texas Cheese House in Lorena.  We'd left early Saturday, thinking we'd run into a lot of Texas Longhorn-Baylor Bear traffic headed from Austin to Waco.  But traffic was light.  See the plunger on top of the French press?  Coffee is brewed by placing the coffee and water together, stirring it and leaving to brew for a few minutes, then pressing the plunger to trap the coffee grounds at the bottom of the beaker.The French press goes by various names around the world. In Italy the press is known as a caffettiera a stantuffo. In New Zealand, Australia and South Africa the apparatus is also known as a coffee plunger, and coffee brewed in it as plunger coffee. Its French name is cafetière à piston.  Even though it's a French press, it was patented by an Italian in 1929.

Besides great coffee, you can get handmade chocolates at the Texas Cheese House. These are Wild Woman chocolates: maybe for women who are wild about chocolate?  

And of course, wheels of freshly made cheese are available.  You can choose  what kind of cheese you want on a sandwich or salad or a cheese plate.  Cheese. . .chocolate...coffee.  Too good!

And my first pickled string bean ever.  Yummy!