Marcella Quality Cheeses and 27.6 Ran Buck’s Cheese Cellar
Marcella Quality Cheeses and 27.6
Ran Buck’s Cheese Cellar
81 Sokolov st., Ramat Hasharon
Tel: +972-3-547-2332
About Marcella Quality Cheeses
Marcella Quality Cheeses is the import and marketing arm of 27.6 - Ran Buck’s Cheese Cellar. The company specializes in quality cheeses from around the world, importing from the UK, Spain, Switzerland, Holland, Germany, France, Italy, Greece and Denmark.
The company has 5 employees and supplies cheese to retail outlets across the country, as well as to some of the best and most prestigious restaurants in Israel: "Messa", "Mozes" chain, "Carmela Be'Nachala", "Reviva VeSilia", "Toto", and many more
Ran Buck is a world-renowned cheese expert whose true love for food and cooking led him to the world of cheese. After serving an extended time in the Israeli Air Force, Ran traveled to the USA to realize his unquensionable passion and devotion for cooking and food, and thereby, to study for the title of Chef.
His culinary education was acquired at an elite cooking school – The French Culinary Institute – where the best chefs of the world teach, amongst them, names such as Jacques P?pin, Jacques Torres, Alain Sailhac, and others. When he completed his studies, he obtained a job and worked as a chef at the prestigious “Daniel” restaurant of Daniel Boulud. After this, he was honored to work for Chef Tom Colicchio of the "Gramercy Tavern" in New York.
After four and half years in the restaurant field in the city, Ran decided to specialize in one of the branches of culinary, and thus, he ended up in the mythological shop of Eddy Edelman, the founder and owner of New York’s “Ideal Cheese Shop”. The variety of cheeses, the tastes and the stories of Eddy Edelman convinced him that cheese was for him, and he remained working in the shop. From Edelman he learnt all there was to know about cheese, and at the shop, which is located adjacent to the UN buildings, he was also exposed in a natural manner to all the possible types of cheeses from around the world http://www.idealcheese.com/.
After his return to Israel, Ran began working at IBM as Manager of Business Development. During this period, he established the company "Gvineria Import", which was the first company to import quality cheeses from England (Blue Stilton cheese and real Cheddar). The company was established in partnership with Nimrod Mei, co-founder of the first shop specializing in cheese in Tel Aviv – "HaGvineria B’Bazel", and Ran was also a partner in this shop. After this, he established the company "Le Cremerie", which was the importing division of cheese for "Tiv Ta'am", and was also General Manager / Partner of the Tiv Ta'am group's International Trading Company responsible, amongst others, for importing wine and "dry" products.
With the merging of the trading divisions of “Tiv Taam” and the end of his position in the Group, Ran returned to his past love for cheese and for selling cheese per se. He founded “Marcella”, an importing company for cheese, and “27.6 – Ran Buck’s Cheese Cellar”, which was his original concept for a shop and of which he hopes will very soon turn into a chain of specialized cheese shops all over Israel. Including the shop in Ramat Hasharon, you can find Ran’s cheeses in the best restaurants in Israel.
Ran wrote "Gvinot" – the most complete and encompassing guide to cheese ever written in Hebrew, and in it a lexicon for cheese, details on the best boutique dairies in Israel, and many recipes of which all of them, of course, are based on cheese.
"Atmosphere", El Al Airways inflight magazine, wrote about 27.6 in 2007. To read the article, click here (part 1) and here (part 2).
About "Ran Buck's Cheese Cellar" shop and activities
At the retail level, “Ran Buck’s Cheese Cellar” shop specializes only in cheeses and cheese products, but you can also find bread with cheese, cheese crackers, specific wine suited specifically to the products of the shop, and kitchenware for cheese. A wide variety of activities are held at the shop – cheese courses, wine and culinary, workshops etc. – customers also sign up for home evening courses or for company get-togethers in the evenings. For information on new products, specials, courses, and other activities, customers are invited to register to our newsletter (Hebrew).
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