";s:4:"text";s:3836:" With a flavour and shape synonymous with the spooky season, this is the perfect addition to a Halloween cheeseboard. Why can’t we get a tour for our special dietary needs?So why not take us by the hand to the meat counter and show us the outdoor-reared pork, the chickens culled from less intensive poultry farms, the Aberdeen Angus beef from Scottish Borders farmers who love their cattle like members of the family (albeit knowing they will meet a swift but still sticky end)?Why not lead us gently to the cheese counter where you’ll find an array of dairy products that would shame a Frenchman? Launching on the Waitrose & Partners cheese counters and available online at Waitrose.com from 4th April, the Hot Cross Bun Yorkshire Wensleydale Truckle 200g is priced at £3. Waitrose’s ‘best of British’ cheese box, which retails for £15 ($18.60), follows a broader business decision to continue to stock products from its smallest cheese suppliers and keep its counters open throughout Covid-19. For further information please contact the Waitrose & Partners Press Office at ZPR at Waitrose@z-pr.com or 02072 875 006. However, she is similarly positive about the opportunities for their Cornish Yarg cheese.Mead said the crisis has presented many challenges but it has also created some opportunities. By Jim Cornall Free delivery - T&Cs apply. Waitrose helping struggling UK cheese suppliers UK retailer Waitrose has launched a special “best of British” cheese selection box, to help its smaller British artisan cheese suppliers adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Browse the Cheese Counter section at Waitrose & Partners and buy high quality Cheese products today. That is a significant increase in demand, which is quite remarkable and a very welcome silver lining during these challenging times.” Waitrose’s “best of British” cheese selection box will be available on counters from 27th May and be priced at £15. 5 tips on how to get shoppers’ attention with packagingThe five most important rules for the modernization of your clean-in-place process Instead, products such as Mrs Bell’s Blue and Cornish Yarg, two Waitrose customer favourites, have been sold pre-packed so that customers could pick them off the counter themselves.One supplier that has been part of this trial is Caroline Bell, Managing Director of Shepherd’s Purse, who comments: “The flexibility that Waitrose has shown through this period has been vital, not only for our sheep farmers who have also been greatly impacted by Covid-19, but for the future of our business. “The response has been great and our customers are already returning to our cheese counters as a result of a greater wrapped assortment, which has allowed them to choose from a wide variety of cheeses while giving them the flexibility to grab and go.”Waitrose’s “best of British” cheese selection box will be available on counters from 27th May and be priced at £15.