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Article: Warming Up To the Big Cheese
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 21, 1997
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FORGET THE SOUP and sandwich; give me bread and melted cheese.
(Plus a little wine or beer, of course.) Nothing could be simpler,
or more satisfying. Roman soldiers dined on it (in a form very like
white pizza); every seafaring adventure from Robert Louis
Stevenson's "Treasure Island" to Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin
series has featured toasted cheese for supper; Wallace and Gromit
would starve without their Wensleydale. And versions of this happy
marriage still hold honored places in cuisines as varied as Swiss,
Italian, British, Mexican and French and under such various names as
fondue, white pizza, quesadillas and Welsh rarebit.
The pleasures inherent in this combination may ...