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• Aging Cheese to Perfection
  
  Aging Cheese to Perfection One of the most important steps in the making of cheese is the aging process. It can be nearly absent, in which case so-called fresh cheese is produced. That's consumed...
• Brie, Cheese of Kings
  
  Brie, Cheese of Kings Taking its name from the region from which it originates, Brie is among the most famous of cheeses anywhere. Made in much the same way in France today as it has been since the...
• Camembert, Cousin to Royalty
  
  Camembert, Cousin to Royalty Tales of the origin of Camembert abound, all of them full of romantic drama. One popular version attributes its invention to Marie Harel, who allegedly named the cheese...
• Cheese and Nutrition
  
  Cheese and Nutrition Because of its relatively high fat content, cheese has gotten a bad reputation in certain circles. But cheese, in fact, is one of the healthiest foods available. Served at the...
• Cheese Storage Tips
  
  Cheese Storage Tips Cheese, to state the obvious, is a food product. That means that in order to enjoy it at peak flavor, it needs to be kept under the right conditions. For most cheeses, most of the...
• Cheese Substitutes
  
  Cheese Substitutes Some people don't tolerate well some of the ingredients in cheese. Made from milk, the lactose can affect some negatively even though the amounts in cheese are much lower than in...
• Cheese Tools For Every Purpose
  
  Cheese Tools For Every Purpose The cheese enthusiast will be happy to know that there exists a never ending array of tools for working with cheese. Some are intended primarily for cheese-making,...
• Cheeses Around The World
  
  Cheeses Around The World Though perhaps not as well-known a fact as wine or beer origin, cheese too is distinctive by country. The French, of course, are known for producing and consuming a large...
• Cooking With Cheese
  
  Cooking With Cheese Cheese makes for a wonderful addition to many recipes. In some cases, such as Welsh rarebit, it is an essential ingredient. But whether it's the centerpiece or just a tasty...
• Goat's Milk Cheeses, From Blah to Superstar
  
  Goat's Milk Cheeses, From Blah to Superstar For many years a goat's milk cheese was just mundane. Produced in abundance in France south of the Loire, it had become as boring as many of the ordinary...
• Gruyère, Swiss Masterpiece
  
  Gruyère, Swiss Masterpiece Named after the Swiss valley from which it originates in the canton of Fribourg, Gruyère is a work of art. Made from cow's milk fed on grasses on the edge of the Vaudois...
• How To Eat a Fine Cheese
  
  How To Eat a Fine Cheese No one needs to tell you how to eat. You learned that long ago. But to enjoy to the maximum a gourmet cheese, there are some small bits of wisdom that can prove useful. Some...
• How To Judge A Fine Cheese
  
  How To Judge A Fine Cheese Taste is unquestionably an individual affair. Some will rave over the flavor of a Limburger, while others won't touch Brie. But no matter your preference in type of cheese,...
• How To Serve a Cheese Course
  
  How To Serve a Cheese Course Americans are catching on to one of the best of Europe's traditions: serving a cheese course after a meal. Providing a variety of tasty cheeses tops off a great roast...
• Low-Fat Cheeses, Tasty and Healthy
  
  Low-Fat Cheeses, Tasty and Healthy Cheese is one of the healthiest foods we can consume, in moderation. A single ounce provides over 200mg of calcium, about 20% of the daily recommended minimum....
• Pairing Wine and Cheese Around the World
  
  Pairing Wine and Cheese Around the World Nothing is more a matter of individual taste than, well, individual tastes. Pairing wine and cheese is one of the best examples. There certainly are...
• The Basics Of Cheese-Making
  
  The Basics Of Cheese-Making Like fine wine, the making of a quality cheese requires a foundation of knowledge, years of practice and a certain amount of art. But one doesn't need to be an affineur or...
• The History of Cheese-making
  
  The History of Cheese-Making We may never know with certainty how cheese was first invented. Sometime at least 5,000 years ago some ancient affineur in Mesopotamia was either lucky or very...
• The Spectrum of Cheeses
  
  The Spectrum of Cheeses There are various ways to categorize cheese - by age, texture or firmness, milk used and so forth. But what the connoisseur cares about most is the experience. Does it taste...
• The Thousand and One Cheeses
  
  The Thousand and One Cheeses Charles de Gaulle is reported to have once said 'How can you govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?' But whatever may have been the administrative skills of that...