Food Combos (that work; and you can do at home; even in a shitty city!)

Cheese

· wheat crackers (Ak-Mak)

o hard goat’s milk cheese

o blue cheese + Belgian ale (see below)

· Triscuit + (aged) Piave

· garlic crackers + Tomme d’Auvergne

· country (regular) bread + olive oil + hard sheep’s milk

· salami (standard)

o pecorino

o aged gouda

· Lucques olives + true chevre (e.g. Montrachet)

· quince (paste or jam) + Manchego

· edam + cranberry chutney

· English farmhouse cheddar + malty/vinegary chutney + English ale (not Scottish; too strong; competes; just decent English ale

· Chicken salad + gruyere family

· Bacon + Gruyere (family of)

· sausage + dry chevre

· Boursin + 3 grain (hard breads) // you can buy this in any store!

Specific Drink and Cheese Combinations

· Cheese for Belgian ales: Couserans, Gubbeen, Muenster Gerome, Tête de Moine,

· Cahill’s Irish Porter Cheddar and Stout

Other

· Lurpak Butter + fig (jam) + bread

· Smoked salmon + pumpernickel + (condiments)

· chestnut honey on a raisin/wheat (and/or bran) muffin

· wild rice + butternut squash soup (stirred together like a cold climate Étouffée)

Cracker Combos

· Finn-Crisp and orange marmalade

The Final Example

· Roquefort (huge hunks) + Moinette (Belgian Ale) + wheaty bread // and a nice long film (preferably Jacques Becker)

Ingredients by Alphabetical and what to do with them:

Figs: prosciutto and roasted walnuts, pears and blue cheese, fresh goat cheese or aged Manchego, cream cheese and bagels, full fat plain yogurt.