Entertaining with Cheese

Entertaining with cheese today is a far cry from the cube-and-toothpick platters of family gatherings of old.

In fact, when it comes to entertaining, cheese tasting is the perfect way to offer a wide variety of flavours and textures and let your guests explore delicious new combinations. Whether it is served as a snack with friends, a course before dessert or a traditional dégustation, cheese always fits the menu.

Here are a few tips for serving cheese with success:
- When it comes to selecting cheeses, go for variety—pick different tastes, textures, colours, degrees of firmness, and so on.
- Always serve cheese at room temperature so that the flavours have time to open up.
- Hard cheeses like OKA and Britannia can share a cutting knife, while soft cheeses like Champfleury and Vaudreuil need their own knives.
- Add variety and colour by serving cheese with olives, nuts, dried fruit, honey, preserves, and crackers or a sliced baguette. The plainer the cracker, the less it will influence the taste of the cheese.