February 20, 2007
Serious Eats.
Found this great new food site,
Serious Eats. Lots of different things, articles, links to noteworthy food-related posts on the webs, and a
Serious Eaters forum with recipes, advice and such. The newest frontier in recipes is
videos demonstrating how to do it, and they have lots of them here. Very nice site, well done. Found this nice video all about
choosing cheeses, thought I'd note it for future reference, I can never remember these things. Interesting details on the differences between goat, sheep and cow cheeses.
TIPS FROM STEVEN JENKINS
Stop at four cheeses: "To serve more than three or four cheeses at a time is an insult to all the other ones that you've chosen."
Offer variety: "Make sure that all three or four cheeses you've chosen are as different from each other as possible ... in terms of intensity of flavor, the style of flavor, the texture, and the animal." Get a goat, a cow, and a sheep, Jenkins says. "Get something that's gushy, that you could just poke at and not even use a knife with, and then I want you to go increasingly more firm texture."
Ugly is beautiful: "Opt for cheeses that are funky-looking, that are rustic-looking, that are primitive-looking—cheeses you never see in a supermarket because they're rough or pebbly or gnarly or moldy. That's going to be a cheese that's worthy of you."
Looks like they're doing an ongoing series of videos about
barbecuing. Have to keep that in mind too. This site is kinda fun. Like the Food Channel, except you can pick what you want to watch.
