Article: QUICK HITS FROM THE WORLD OF FOOD BY ANN HELLER

Cheese, please

For years you've been buying Gouda cheese, maybe even the good aged Gouda, but who thought much about pronouncing it? That looked straightforward enough to me.

Now comes New York cheese expert- called a fromager - Max McCalman to say it's supposed to be pronounced How-duh, with a guttural sound in the How. Like the rest of us, he grew up pronouncing it Goo-duh.

That's just one of the tidbits in his book The Cheese Plate, with co-author David Gibbons (Clarkson Potter, $32.50). It's fun flipping through his 50-plus pages listing the world's finest cheeses, just to see what might be available here. It may have more scholarly info on making and storing cheese than you want, but ...

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