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December 14, 2004
Suddenly, An Interest In Cheese!
New Year's resolutions to lose weight are lame. Who cares to NOT eat food? Food is delicious and should be eaten. Thus, my New Year's resolution for 2005 is to become a cheese expert.
The overall plan is as follows:
- Gain familiarity with all types of cheeses. cheese.com, surprisingly, offers a pretty decent beginner overview of types of cheeses available. The idea is to try all of these at some point.
- Pick cheese families that tastes best and focus on those groups. This is obviously going to be very subjective, but no fear, I like a lot of different flavors and textures of cheese.
- In the process of the above, learn about how cheese is made and what affects flavor, texture, and goodness.
- Make own cheese at least once.
The main goal is to be able to tell cheeses apart while blindfolded. And I don't mean "this is brie and this is cheddar", more like "this is x type of edam and this edam obiously comes from area z". Levels of snootiness will soar!
P.S. I almost named this the "Dairy of a Cheese Expert to Be" but I'm not that cheesy...
Posted by maggie at December 14, 2004 12:10 PM