Cheese Peeves
Peeve #1
I really, really dislike seeing someone cut the point off a wedge of cheese. Didn't anyone ever teach them to keep the point? Cheese often comes in triangles rather than squares, because it is cut from a larger round of cheese.
If you cut the point off without finishing the wedge of cheese, the next time it is served, it isn't a graceful triangle, it's an ugly, truncated block.
But, if you cut your serving of cheese down one side or the other, it keeps the point on the cheese so the next time it is served, it looks brand new. Yes, of course it's a small thing - one might even say a petty concern - but it just makes like a little nicer if you do it right. I'm just sayin'.
Peeve #2
If more than one cheese is served with a small knife for each kind, it's nice to use the same knife on the same cheese each time. Cheeses have all different flavors and sometimes one guest will like one kind and another guest will not - if each has its own knife, end of problem.
So messy when people just grab whatever knife and carve away, oblivious, smearing the Brie into the Manchego. End cheese and knife pollution - it doesn't improve anything!
Okay, that's it for today's beef. We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming.
posted by Zoomie at
5:59 AM
12 Comments:
I hear and obey! Never cut the point off! Yes Mam! And lOL1 You do have a point-idiotic pun intended.
I guess that I have never pondered the dilemna of left-over cheese no longer shaped like a triangle, because I rarely have any cheese left over. I promise to keep this in mind for the future!
I concur on both points.
Nancy, I'm glad I have been of service. :-)
Janie, with Jack in the house, I'm not surprised that you don't have leftover cheese - or leftover anything! :-)
Diane, thank you. Always nice to hear agreement.
OK, well then, here comes disagreement.
I didn't know there were rules for enjoying a wine and cheese party. Use the knife wrong and you're a boor?
Fortunately, wine and cheese parties are hopeless relics of the 70s.
OTOH, that drawing on the paper towels is really cute. Did you do that, Zooms?
Cookiecrumb, yes, my drawing. I don't think they are rules, exactly, just common sense. I go to an annual cheese tasting party that's lots of fun, relic or no relic.
Greg, ;-) back at ya!
You're a really good artist! Did not know that.
Cookiecrumb, I seem to remember that you are an artist, aren't you? I love to make pictures (usually photographs), but I don't think of myself as an artist. Don't have the patience.
Whatever you did there, it's fresh and bright and... Accurate! Charming.
I used to illustrate textbooks, but I never found a "wrist," an imagination... So I fired myself. :)
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As someone who always serves a cheese course at dinner parties I totally agree with your peeves. Although I only have 2 knives - one for the hard cheeses and another for the soft. I normally only serve one soft cheese so no problem. and, as I serve 3 or 4 cheeses, most of each is leftover (for me to nibble on)
Katiez, it's good to know I'm not the only persnickety one. :-)
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