Article: Buying and Serving Cheese With Ease

It was bound to happen: Cheese-guide authorship has been one- upped with the arrival of "Laura Werlin's Cheese Essentials: An Insider's Guide to Buying and Serving Cheese" (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $24.95).

There are three key ways in which Werlin, a San Francisco-based food writer whose three previous books also were cheese-related, has delivered a sharper, richer approach: organization, effective answers to highlighted questions and her inclusion of 50 interesting recipes.

Werlin has categorized and cross-referenced hundreds of cheeses into eight accessible groups, basically from mild to strong. Each gets its own chapter, with general advice on buying and storage; visual, textural, ...

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