A Cheese Primer

CHOW’s guide to the major cheese types.

The Taste of an Oyster

Plus a dozen oysters you should know.

A NYC pastry chef makes diners taste purple—without dropping acid!

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Approaching the Cheese Counter

How to choose cheese for a dinner party, sports night, and every day.

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Know Your Mushrooms

A visual guide to all your favorite fungi.

The cheese-focused food mag culture makes its national debut.

A lovely platter of choice Berkeley Cheeseboard Collective advice.

other cheese home again. Yesterday, I met a serious contender for my affections: a truffled Brillat-Savarin. I had been ready to commit myself to a whole Boschetto (approx.$30, whole), but the sheer unctuousness of...

"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star." Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Physiologie du Gout, 1825

Hello all! I recently asked a friend to pick up wedge of Brillat Savarin cheese for me.....what I have on my hands (besides a very kind friend :) is about 1/2 pound of a cheese that has me a little baffled . Though I see the...

“Tell me what you eat: I will tell you who you are.” - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin When I had just read the title the first thing that popped into my head was Reagan’s quote about jellybeans: "You can tell a lot...

Tonight’s dinner was entirely from the shop....Brillat Savarin; an amazing nutty goat cheese from france, Marissa; a local salty sheepsmilk cheese, some pork and chicken pate, some of their great take and bake bread. Added...

conversation. Good luck! “Only the wisest men know the art of good eating.” Brillat-Savarin

I have finally identified a restaurant capable of making the L’Oreiller de la Belle Aurore dish described in Lucien Tendret’s (sp) "La Table au Pays de Brillat-Savarin" (The dining table in the country of...

practically melted in my mouth—and very unpretentious—for example they were happy to serve our spinach steamed instead of brillat savarin’ed to death by butter