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Article: Cheese dreams meet reality: Eat your cheese and taste it, too
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- January 17, 2001
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NEW YORK - "Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese -
toasted, mostly," is the famously wistful sigh of Ben Gunn, the
character in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 adventure story "Treasure
Island." Here and now, no one needs to dream any more.
Americans can savor, taste, study, read about, buy and cook
cheese, from an unequaled range of sources. Along with increased
production of fine domestic cheeses has come more awareness of all
kinds of cheese, at all levels.
Cheese courses, cheese carts and boards are firmly back in favor
at many restaurants. One pioneer, Terrance Brennan, renowned chef,
restaurateur and champion of fine cheeses, established his Manhattan
restaurant Picholine in ...