There was a moment when Mansi Jasani walked into the Murray’s Cheese Store in New York back in 2011, when the realisation struck her. “I had walked into Disneyland. That was the moment I knew,” shares the cheesemonger. With a moniker like ‘Cheesewali’, her love for the ingredient is hardly in doubt. Jasani has just returned from the recently concluded World Cheese Awards held by the Guild of Fine Food in Bern, Switzerland. “I just dropped by in Paris to pick up some more French cheese,” she adds. These delectable additions will make it to a platter of cheeses and stories at the annual Cheese Palooza being held at a venue in Fort this weekend.

Caves of Le Gruyère cheese in Switzerland