Creating the Perfect Cheese Plate In A Day For Dummies
by Culture magazine: the word on cheese , Laurel Miller, Thalassa Skinner
Creating the Perfect Cheese Plate In A Day For Dummies
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Introduction
We may be cheese geeks, but we understand that, like wine, learning about cheese can be confusing, overwhelming, and (in the wrong hands) pretentious. Not only that, but after youve learned about cheese, putting a cheese plate together can be downright scary. How many cheeses do you use? What order should they be in? What kinds of accompaniments go with these cheeses? There is an art to creating the perfect cheese plate. Its about more than just taking the first three (or four, or five or... ) cheeses you see and putting them on a plate with some grapes and a small knife. Our goal is to demystify cheese and help you feel comfortable with buying, tasting, and serving it.
If youve ever wanted to create the perfect cheese plate (for your guests, or maybe just for yourself hey, weve all been there!), then this book is for you! Our goal throughout this book is to turn you on to cheese so that you can appreciate and enjoy it in all of its fresh, creamy, buttery, squeaky, hard, aged, crumbly, nutty, stinky glory.
This book provides you with the basics so that you can confidently talk about cheese, pair cheese, identify cheese, and most importantly, eat cheese! Creating the Perfect Cheese Plate In A Day For Dummies helps you figure out what kinds of cheese you like and how to pair them with each other, and with accompaniments, so you have a cheese plate all the neighbors are raving about.
What You Can Do In A Day
The goal of Creating the Perfect Cheese Plate In A Day For Dummies is to help you, well, create the perfect cheese plate (duh!). But seriously, we begin by walking you through soft, blue, and hard cheese so you know what is available to you. We then help you decide what kinds of cheese you like. Next, we get into the nitty-gritty of putting your cheese plate together, and last (but certainly not least), we show you what accompaniments can go with your cheeses.
You can start from the beginning at Chapter 1 and go through to Chapter 6, or you can take a look at the table of contents, and pick and choose what youre most interested in. Theres no wrong way to read this book, just like theres no wrong way to eat cheese! How you use this book is up to you.
Foolish Assumptions
Heres what were assuming about you: You love cheese, and you want to impress your guests and their taste buds by creating the most tantalizing spread of cheese they have ever seen. Ever.
Icons Used in This Book
To help you navigate your way through this book, we place icons in the margins. Heres a list of the icons and what they mean:
This icon highlights any wisdom we have to offer about how to buy, serve, or store cheese, or suggested reading for the topic at hand.
When you see this icon, you know that were telling you essential cheese information. This is the stuff that you need to know.
This icon appears beside answers to common questions or insider info gleaned from cheese industry folks in all capacities.
We use this icon to point out technical information that we find fascinating but that you dont really need to know (our feelings wont be too hurt if you skip it).
This icon indicates how to best serve or pair a cheese with other foods or beverages, or what applications (cooking, melting, snacking, and so on) the cheese is best used for.