Article: Tips for storing cheese at home

You could drive yourself nuts worrying about the best way to store cheese. Many experts say the only acceptable method is using specialty cheese paper, the heavy-duty, breathable paper used at cheese shops.

That's fine if you buy and store enough cheese to merit hunting down this hard-to-find item. For the rest of us, waxed paper, plastic wrap, foil and plastic bags will have to do.

And that's just fine, say Sharon Tyler Herbst and Ron Herbst in their "The Cheese Lover's Companion." This invaluable guide to the cheese world distills the essentials of home cheese storage. Here are some highlights:

* Each time a cheese is opened, it should be rewrapped in new wrapping.

* Soft-ripened and ...