| Setting out to find a new cheese to add to | | | | let a cheese dry out.Most cheese are like |
| your life is a great way to | | | | sponges for other strong smelling odors, so |
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| spend a weekend afternoon. There are some | | | | |
| great spots in just about | | | | don't want to store cheese next to the |
| | | | garlic dip, or anything that |
| every city to explore new tastes. Once you | | | | |
| find your new cheese, having | | | | might damage the cheese's flavors.So what |
| | | | cheese should we be looking for? Really it |
| it loose its flavor or dry out before you | | | | depends a great deal |
| can share it with others is a | | | | |
| | | | on what we might be serving with the cheese. |
| sad moment. So let's talk about caring for | | | | If wine is on the list, |
| the cheese.As a rule, you shouldn't slice up | | | | |
| your hunk of cheese before you are | | | | then that may make it a bit easier to narrow |
| | | | down a good new cheese to |
| ready to use it. Unpasteurized cheese will | | | | |
| begin to loose subtlety and | | | | bring home.The rule of thumb for finding |
| | | | cheese to serve with wine is: the whiter |
| aroma once it is sliced and more area is | | | | |
| exposed to the oxygen in the | | | | and fresher the cheese the crisper and |
| | | | fruitier the wine. White wines |
| air. So keep them in hunks as long as you | | | | |
| can.Find out from your cheese vendor, or from | | | | normally go better with more cheeses than |
| searching the Internet, what | | | | reds wines do, but a dry fresh |
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| conditions were used to mature your new | | | | red wine goes very well with soft cheeses, |
| found cheese. Storing your | | | | especially goat milk types. |
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| cheese in the same conditions is often the | | | | Light fruity red wines are often the best |
| best way to keep it | | | | matches for other cheeses, but |
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| flavorful. For hard, semi-hard and semi-soft | | | | the heavier reds are a hard match with |
| cheeses the normal storing | | | | cheese. Sweet wines a great with |
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| temperature is about 8-13 C (about 46 | | | | the cheeses that have a high acidity, the |
| degrees Fahrenheit) for example. | | | | contrast in tastes is often |
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| Cheese stored in the refrigerator should be | | | | very enjoyable. Dry champagnes a great |
| removed about an hour and a | | | | choice with bloomy white rinds.The matching |
| | | | of cheese and wine is such an old culinary |
| half before serving, letting the cheese warm | | | | tradition that |
| up allows the flavor and | | | | |
| | | | when you are first starting out on the |
| aroma to develop.Keeping your cheese wrapped | | | | matching exploration of these |
| in waxed paper is much better than a plastic | | | | |
| | | | two, try combinations which include cheese |
| wrap or plastic container. Waxed paper, | | | | and wine from the same |
| inside a loose-fitting storing | | | | |
| | | | geographical regions. There are probably |
| bag will not lose humidity and will maintain | | | | good reasons they make the |
| air circulation. Plastic | | | | |
| | | | cheese and wine they do.Personal enjoyment |
| will often condense air and trap moisture. | | | | is the last and final line of judgment. So |
| One exception to this would | | | | enjoy |
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| be blue cheese. Mould spores from blue | | | | yourself and have a great time exploring new |
| cheese spread quickly and easily. | | | | tastes.Jerry Powell is the Owner of a Popular |
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| If they stayed on the cheese that would be | | | | |
| fine, but they don't, and | | | | As you can see from our name, |
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| quickly spread to anything close to them. | | | | we are here to help you learn more about |
| Cheeses contain living | | | | different kinds of |
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| organisms that must not be cut off from air, | | | | Gourmet food and Wines, Coffees from all |
| yet it is important not to | | | | around the world. |
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