IT’S Sunday morning on Jermyn Street in high summer. The air is full of the promise of a glorious day ahead and the roads are empty—ignore the sandwich board outside Caffè Nero and you could easily be in 1922, not 2022. Yet, behind the reassuringly heavy door of No 93, a quiet revolution is taking place. As it turns 225 this year, Paxton & Whitfield—cheesemonger to the late Queen—is taking a giant step forward into the digital age.
If you do your weekly shop with Ocado, you might already know that, since July, the site’s 800,000-odd members have been able to get a Paxton & Whitfield cheeseboard (Stilton, Camembert de Normandie, Comté Androuet, cave-aged
