Gourmet Cheese - A No-Nonsense Guide to Everything About Cheese

What Do You Want to Know About Gourmet Cheese?
The Gourmet Cheese Detective is Here to Help

Discover the Best Cheese in the World!
For many of us, gourmet cheese is a passion. Cheese is also a mystery; cheese is a treasure meant to be shared with family and friends. When paired with the perfect wine, cheese could be described as a gift from the Gods!

A great example would be English Farmhouse Cheddars.

English Farmhouse Cheddar

There is so much to explore in the world of gourmet cheese. And I hope you'll do just that, by browsing through the Gourmet Cheese Detective's website. I'll give you the basic facts so that you can go out and explore with confidence, sample, taste and enjoy the simple pleasures of the world's most wonderful cheeses.

From American artisanal cheeses to the finest European cheeses which are still being made in the traditional way, using recipes often dating back a 1000 years or more - there is a cheese for every taste, for every occasion. In fact, hosting a cheese tasting party or creating an elegant cheese course to complete your next dinner party are just some of the ways to enjoy cheese.

These days many fine cheeses are available in most supermarkets.

French Cheese Platter

And that is partly because American cheesemaking has grown over the past 30 years into a booming artisan industry.

But if you want to go beyond the everyday choices, I'll recommend some outstanding sources you can visit online to order specialty cheeses to try at home, to pair with wines, champagnes or with ales and beers - to use in recipes or to send as gifts. Ideas for Cheese Platters (like this photo of a French Cheese Platter) and easy examples showing you how to create the Ultimate Cheese Course will be part of this website.

Click on the photos below to take you to pages that are devoted to some of the world's most popular cheeses:

Cheddar	Gorgonzola	Gouda
Gruyere	Parmesan	Roquefort
	Stilton

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

I hope you'll become a regular visitor to the Gourmet Cheese Detective website and that you'll share your comments, gourmet cheese reviews and recommendations, recipes and questions with all of us! Thanks for checking us out.