TIP OF THE DAY: 10 Beautiful Holiday Cheese Boards & Plates

It’s easy to turn cheese into edible holiday art. Just look at these 10 examples, each easy to create at home. When you need a respite during holiday preparations, sit back with this history of cheese.     THE HISTORY OF CHEESE Cheese dates back to before recorded history, perhaps as far back as 6,000…
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PRODUCTS: Chevoo Goat Cheese, Trois Petits Cochons Egg Bites, Upton’s Naturals Thai Pastas

[1] Chevoo, EVOO-marinated cubes of goat cheese in five flavors (photo courtesy Chevoo). [2] Ready-to-eat Egg Bites from Les Trois Petites Cochons (photo courtesy 3Pigs.com). [3] You can garnish Egg Bites any way you like, or enjoy them plain (photo courtesy 3Pigs.com). [4] Two of Upton’s Naturals’ four Thai-inspired pastas (photo courtesy Live Kindly).  …
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TIP OF THE DAY: Membrillo, A Great Cheese Condiment

[1] Serve membrillo (top left) with a charcuterie and/or cheese board. You can serve it whole or pre-slice it (photo courtesy Volpi Foods). [2] Homemade membrillo from food photographer and stylist Melina Hammer. [3] Membrillo and the quince it is made from (photo courtesy Directo al Paladar).   Membrillo (mem-BREE-yo) is a semisoft cheese condiment…
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TIP OF THE DAY: The New Deviled Egg Isn’t Deviled

We love this idea from food photographer and creative cook Melina Hammer, via Handsome Brook Farm. Handsome Brook Farm is a pioneer in organic pasture-raised eggs, with distribution on the East Coast. We can assure you that in blind tastes tests two years apart, organic eggs were the clear winner over other eggs. Which brings…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Pick A Better Cheese For Your Cheeseburger

September 18th is National Cheeseburger Day. That typically means a slice of supermarket American, cheddar or Swiss cheese: The same old, same old. How about some better cheese, for a change? Murray’s, a New York City cheese and specialty food store, has a separate restaurant that has fine cheeses in every course. If this is…
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