Among those who follow food and wine closely, the age-old, reflexive custom of pairing cheese with red wine began to die in the 1990s.
Anthony Femia, affineur at Melbourne's Spring Street Cheese Cellar (at Spring Street Grocer) recommends pairing cheese with seasonal fruits such as lightly grilled peaches, fresh cherries and figs.
Around New York City, there are classes to answer almost any question you might have, from pairing cheese with beer to cooking with it.
To accompany our Pairing Cheese and Honey article, stylist Eugene Jho is dripping honey over a gorgeously globby ricotta-topped baguette slice as photographer Jeremy Merriam snaps frames (top photo).
Cheese Pairings Max McCalman, a cheese expert, will give a class in pairing cheeses with Champagnes and Cognacs on Jan . 25from 6 30 to 8 30 p.m. at Artisanal Premium Cheese, 500 West 37th Street.
The market's maître fromager, Steven Jenkins, holds formal tastings in the Fairway Cafe throughout the year, pairing cheeses with wine and bread.
Cheese and Wine There will be a class in pairing cheeses with red wines at the Artisanal Cheese Center, 500 West 37th Street, on March 4 at 6 30 p.m. On March 16 at 6 30 p.m., another class will cover an introduction to pairing cheeses and wines.
After Moskowitz announced the ten finalists, to much hollering, each presented a cheese sign (Jillian Weber from Murray's, on her chosen cheese: "If you like 'em young, ashy, and a little bit dense, then this is the girl for you"), competed in the cutting and wrapping tests, and paired cheese with a newly released Brooklyn Brewery beer.
Visitors can pair cheeses with a variety of honeys, house-made compotes, jams, nuts, and candied fruit.
You can use any pairing of cheese and onion but Per Las, a creamy, mild, salty Welsh blue cheese, is delicious with caramelised onions.
Pairing goat cheese and bacon is traditional in Austria.
