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The Cheese Variety Shelf

This week's post from yours is a cheesy variety, if you will, of cheese quotes, quips, and trivia.

Comment on your favorites or add to the collection bellow!

-Austin

Quotes:

“Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.”
-M.F.K. Fisher, How to Cook a Wolf

"Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures".
-M. F. K. Fisher

"A dinner which ends without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye."
-Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
-unknown

“Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.”
-Luis Buñuel

“Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.”
-T.S. Eliot

Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?"
- Job, speaking to God

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'Keeps me searching for that heart of cheese'

For my blog post this time around I was debating either cheese themed super bowl fare (Wisconsin being a cheese mecca and all) or cheese on Valentines Day. Although I am perhaps quick to the punch for Valentines Day, I am not much of a football guy; I have no bias towards any particular team or any cheese producing state for that matter. I hope my masculinity will not be jeopardized.

Everyone associates Valentine’s Day with chocolate but-- what about cheese?!? I like the idea of selecting 3-4 cheeses for you and your valentine to enjoy before, after or even as an alternative to a reservation at that ‘fancy pants’ restaurant. Do a little homework. Pick a few unique and contrasting cheeses with the help of your local cheese monger to wow your taste buds (and your date, of course). Even go as far as reading