Cheeses I Have Loved

A couple of times a week I make a lunch of olives, bread, and cheese. The bread and olives stay the same ( a rustic loaf and a mix of olives from the olive bar), but I get a different cheese each time. Hopefully this list will help me keep track of my favorites.  I have never met a cheese I did not like, so I won't bother with another post for worst cheese picks.

English Sharpham Rustic - creamy, semi-hard with a thin rind, made with vegetarian rennet and Jersey milk. *****

Delice de Bourgogne - creamy, soft, and really, really rich. *****

Borough Market Lancashire - vegetarian rennet, mild, creamy. *****

Somerset Cheddar - some flavor I can't quite place, a tanginess. ***

Tete De Moine - pungent, rich, full flavored, hard cheese I had this shaved onto my salad. ****

New Books

We acquired several new books last week, including the new On Food and Cooking, by Harold McGee, and Meat, Game and Poultry, by Lucy Knox and Keith Richmond. I have not really had a chance to look at the revised Food, but I am already immersed in the meat book. It has photos of basic cuts of domestic and game animals. The offal chapter is particularly edifying. Kidneys are really interesting, so multilobed. And who knew hares were so much darker than rabbits? I have to admit that I do love dissecting.