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• Kappacasein

  producerA railway arch in Bermondsey, with the counter at 1 Stoney Street in Borough Market

  Bill Oglethorpe is a cheesemaker with no farm, so the herd stays in Kent and the dairy is a railway arch under the main line out of London Bridge, with a hundred-year-old copper vat in it. He has been selling the cheese, and a toasted sandwich made of it, at Borough Market since 2003.

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  • Bermondsey Hard Pressed. This is the Alpine-style raw cow's-milk wheel, with the arch's name pressed into its side, and it matures for up to a year in the next arch along.
  • London Raclette. This one melts, and it is scraped over new potatoes with baby gherkins and pickled onions.
  • Ricotta. It comes out of the same vat the same morning, made from the whey the curd has just left.
  • sold at Borough Market The counter and the cheese shop trade inside the market, along the row from Neal's Yard Dairy.

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  Spitalfields Life, the gentle author, on the trainingKappacasein, own site, on the starterNeal's Yard Dairy, on the toastingHarden's, the survey's reporters and the tip

• The Brick Lane beigel

  productBrick Lane, Spitalfields, in the east end

  Jonny Cohen taught both Brick Lane beigel bakeries their recipe, and Beigel Bake and the Beigel Shop still boil the dough before it goes anywhere near an oven. That boil is why a London beigel chews where an American bagel crumbles, and neither counter has shut since the seventies.

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  • best version at Beigel Bake They boil the rings and bake them on wooden planks in a kitchen you can see from the counter, and the salt beef is carved to order.
  • sold at The Beigel Shop, 155 Brick Lane, four doors up from Beigel Bake

  Where to eat one: the The salt beef beigel card on the London list has the rooms.

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