Laura Werlin's Cheese Essentials: An Insider’s Guide to Buying and Serving Cheese (With 50 recipes)

by Laura Werlin

'Cheese Essentials' provides a comprehensive overview in a convenient guidebook format. It acquaints readers with the cheese fundamentals: the different kinds of milk used, information on rinds and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584796278
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Find your way around the cheese shop!

Daunted in the cheese section? I learned so much reading this book! I already knew which basic cheeses I liked (Manchego! Brie! Munster!) and which I didn't (um...), but Werlin's accessible definitions, descriptions, and groupings made shopping for cheeses so much easier. Definitely recommend. Bonus: great recipes incorporating many of the cheeses she highlights.

Who knew?

Who knew that cheese could be so incredibly interesting and fun? Ms. Werlin's book is an accessible and interesting read and has inspired me broaden my horizons beyond my mundane grocery store dairy case.

Laura Werlin's Cheese Essentials

This book is informative, helpful, instructive, and topics are arranged sensibly as well as beautifully. This is a book that can be picked up at any time, opened randomly, and one would find factual information about cheese types with perhaps a bit of history, or a delectable recipe, or instructions on how to care for a specific cheese type. Laura Werlin is a wizard on cheese, a food enthusiast who has common sense in her back pocket at all times.

Say CHEESE!!

Prerequisite: you want to know about cheese, you love cheese Highlights: 1. colour pictures on each page 2. comfortable printing, editing, and reading (text size) 3. introductions and information of several cheese 4. how to enjoy cheese 5. simple cheese recipe included 6. Not a heavy book 7. Her personal tips on selecting cheese Cons: it covers about 60% types of cheese.

Best Beginner Cheese Book Ever

This fantastic book would be perfect for anyone who wants to learn about cheese. Laura's eight categories of cheese are an excellent way to approach cheeses and understand just by looking what a cheese is likely to taste like. For example, the categories she uses are: + fresh + soft-ripened + surface-ripened + semi-soft + semi-hard + hard + washed-rind + blue She spends time discussing the common characteristics of cheeses in each category. For example fresh refers to un-aged cheese which are likely to have a creamy flavor and generally a light taste. Soft-ripened cheese softens from the outside in because of a bloomy white rind-- brie is the classic example. This is much, much more approachable for a newcomer than the usual litany of cheese types, names, and places.