Classic Cheese Cookery

Book excerpt: This award-winning guide to serving, pairing, and cooking with cheese includes more than 300 recipes—plus photos and an extensive cheese checklist! Critic and food writer Peter Graham’s Classic Cheese Cookery is the definitive book for satisfying the cravings of any cheese lover. With 18 chapters encompassing more than 300 recipes, you will find decadent inspirations for toasted and melted cheese, soups, pasta, pancakes, tarts, sauces, pastry, and much more. Alongside traditional recipes for soufflés, gratins, quiches, and cheesecakes, there are an enticing array of simple snacks and salads. Inspired combinations, such as pears with pecorino and prawns with feta will tempt the adventurous, while vegetarians will be delighted by the extensive variety that cheese cookery offers them. A detailed checklist of cheeses guides the intrepid and the uninitiated alike, so whether you are searching for a new pasta sauce, an alternative to Welsh rarebit, or a refreshing approach to entertaining, Classic Cheese Cookery, has something for every occasion.