The Complete Book of Cheese by Robert Carlton Brown
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Of English Blues there are several celebrities beside Stilton and Cheshire Stilton. Wensleydale was one in the early days, and still is, together with Blue Dorset, the deepest green of them all, and esoteric Blue Vinny, a choosey cheese not liked by everybody, the favorite of Thomas Hardy. Brie Sheila Hibben once wrote in _The New Yorker:_ I can't imagine any difference of opinion about Brie's being the queen of all cheeses, and if there is any such difference, I shall certainly ignore it. The very shape of Brie--so uncheese-like and so charmingly fragile--is exciting. Nine times out of ten a Brie will let you down--will be all caked into layers, which shows it is too young, or at the over-runny stage, which means it is too old--but when you come on the tenth Brie, _coulant_ to just the right, delicate creaminess, and the color of fresh, sweet butter, no other cheese can compare with it. The season of Brie, like that of oysters, is simple to remember: only months with an "R," beginning with September, which is the best, bar none. Caciocavallo |
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