Article: Rethink cheese ball as modern party food

History has not been kind to the cheese ball.

Early on, this classic party food earned an ugly reputation it's been mostly unable to shake - an orange softball filled with garish industrial cheeses, smacking of an untraceable sweetness, and coated with stale, often soggy, nuts.

Not exactly food to get your guests going - except for going out the door.

"To me it was one of those things you saw at a party, and after a few people had dug into it, it looked like a train wreck," says Kemp Minifie, food editor at Gourmet magazine.

But surely they can be more.

With cheeses of all kinds getting gourmet treatment in recent years, this is one party food that seems ripe for an update.

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