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A great cheese board isn't a pile of expensive dairy products arranged near some grapes. It's a curated argument, a tasting journey, a story told in rinds and paste and texture. Here's how to stop assembling cheese boards and start composing them — using American artisan cheese as your vocabulary.
Wine and cheese had a good run. A really good run, actually — centuries of it, good job, everyone involved. But the artisan cheese revolution has unlocked a whole new zoo of flavor combinations, and some of the most revelatory involve a cold IPA, a bone-dry hard cider, or a shot of single-origin espresso. Prepare to have your pairing assumptions gently but firmly dismantled.