Cheese: A Comprehensive Guide to Cheeses of the World (Cook's Kitchen Reference)

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Summary: "Cheese" Will Please
Review: "Cheese" offers complete descriptions of a very wide range of cheeses. As the only cheese guidebook organized by types of cheese, it is the ideal reference when searching for a new kind of blue or discovering the different types of chedder. My only wish is that more pictures were provided, as only more popularly-used cheeses are photographed. Unlike some cheese resources, this book does not include recipes, but instead devotes its pages to facts about purchasing cheeses, creating cheese trays, regions where cheeses are made, and other cheese characteristics. Overall, it is the best book I have come across for expanding your knowledge of cheese in general, as well as to find out more about the new cheese you saw at the grocer's.

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Summary: My brin d'amour
Review: As a cheese professional I have found this book to be an invaluable resource. The tasting notes are particularly helpful and on many occassions I have referenced them in describing cheeses to my customers. I appreciate the lack of photographs-- as a professional I do know most of the cheeses and what they look like, I just don't always have the words to describe them and their characteristics. I have especially enjoyed her descriptions of various farmhouse English, Scottish, Irish, and Australasian cheeses not available here. For me the only minus is that the indices following each chapter do not have brief descriptions of the cheeses, just country of origin, region, and milk source. I usually recommend this book to my more 'advanced' customers -- beginners are probably better suited to her world encyclopaedia of cheeses. Let's hope it comes out in soft cover soon so the price will go down...

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Summary: Pass The Cheese!
Review: This book taught me all i know about cheese! i am the cheese master! if you don't eat cheese...well this book will really trun u on to cheese! Juliet Harbutt is sooooo cool i wanna be just like her! She knows chees better than my great uncle! (who is a fly) My great uncle always told me that cheese is the way of life, he is so right! Please learn about cheese it makes you feel good! and things come out of your pot that u never thought of! make good food learn about cheese! Pass the cheese! (tell everyone that my review was helpful [duh it is] )

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Cheese Fan 101