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Learn to create the perfect cheese plate for your next party—in a day! When hosting friends, a great cheese plate makes the perfect crowd-pleasing treat. Creating the Perfect Cheese Plate In a Day For Dummies gives you everything you need to know to create the perfect plate, including how to choose the right cheeses, and serve them correctly. Includes simple tips on creating the perfect cheese plate Features simple guidance on picking the right wines and beverages to complement your favorite cheeses This e-book also links to an online component at dummies.com that extends the topic into step-by-step tutorials and other "beyond the book" content.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1 What You Can Do In A Day 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 2 Chapter 1: A Hard Look at Soft (And Blue) Cheese 5 Soften Up: Understanding the Soft Cheese Basics 5 Getting Fresh 7 Surface-Ripened Soft Cheeses 8 Bloomy-rind soft cheeses: Fluffy, furry, velvety rinds 9 Washed-rind soft cheeses: An odiferous array 10 Mold-ripened: Wrinkly soft cheeses 11 A Semi-Softie at Heart 12 Pressed, brined, and dry-salted fresh semi-soft cheeses 12 I’m (not) melting! Fresh semi-soft cheeses that stay in shape 13 Semi-soft rindless cheeses full of buttery flavors 14 Down to earth: Mushroomy, grassy-tasting semi-softs 14 Semi-soft washed rinds 15 Feeling Blue 16 Mellow blues 17 Blues with attitude 17 High-octane blues 18 Chapter 2: Grate Tastes: Hard Cheese 21 Hard to Beat: Understanding the Basics 21 Going Topless: A Rundown of Rindless Hard Cheeses 23 It’s better buttery and mild 23 Going mild for rindless cheeses 24 Looking at Natural-Rind Hard Cheeses 24 Buttery cheeses with natural rinds 25 Earthy natural-rind delights 25 Natural-rind nutty cheeses 26 Bursting with flavor: Sharp natural-rind cheeses 27 Washed-rind and Wonderful Cheeses 28 Nice and nutty 28 Slightly stinky cheeses 29 Trying Out Coated-Rind and Clothbound Hard Cheeses 30 Coated-rind cheeses with a nutty flavor 30 Sharp to earthy coated-rind cheeses 31 Sweet, butterscotchy coated-rind cheeses 32 Chapter 3: Figuring Out What You Like 33 Discovering What You Like and Don’t Like 33 Evaluating the Characteristics of Cheese 35 Using your common sense(s) 35 Ten “technical” (if sometimes odd) terms used to describe cheese 36 Taking the Cheese Challenge 37 Chapter 4: Crafting Your Cheese Plate 41 Where to Buy: Exploring Your Options 41 What’s in store 42 Online offerings 44 To market, to market: Buying direct 47 Serving Basics 47 Cutting to the chase 47 Serving at the ideal temperature 49 Putting together a cheese plate  50 Arranging your items: General principles 50 Creating Great Plates 52 How much is enough? Deciding on serving size 52 Selecting cheeses for a plate 53 Arranging your plate 54 Putting Your Cheese to Bed: Successful Storage 55 Chapter 5: Cheesy Accompaniments 57 Picking Sides 57 Savory 58 Sweet 58 Composing the Components 59 Keeping it simple and other tips 59 Suggestions from your pantry 60 Cheesy Accessories: All about Knives and Boards 61 Knifestyles of the rich and famous 62 Chairman of the board 63 Chapter 6: Where to Go from Here 65 Taking Your First Steps 65 Visiting dummies.com 66

About the Author :
Culture Magazine (www.culturecheesemag.com) covers everything to do with cheese, including travel, pairings, recipes, and DIY cheese. Laurel Miller is a Seattle-based food and travel writer, culinary educator, and contributing editor at Culture. Thalassa ("Lassa") Skinner is co-founder of Culture and a cheesemonger in the Napa Valley, CA, where she is passionately involved with local cheese, food, and wine makers.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781118538982
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: For Dummies
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 81 In A Day For Dummies
  • ISBN-10: 1118538986
  • Publisher Date: 23 Nov 2012
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 71


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