C-041 · Cheese · Blue
Roquefort
Salt first, then the sweetness underneath it. The board's exclamation mark — one is plenty, and a second blue is nearly always a mistake.
- Cut
- Never slice it. Break it into rubble with the back of a spoon — a knife smears the veining and the board looks bruised.
- Place it
- Its own corner, with honeycomb touching it. On its own it goes home untouched; beside something sweet it disappears.
- Goes with
- Honeycomb, walnut, pear, Sauternes, Medjool date, dark rye.
- Avoid beside
- Other blues, and anything delicate — it flattens fresh chèvre and burrata completely.
- Buy instead
- Stilton if you want it milder; Valdeón if you want it louder; Gorgonzola Dolce if the room is nervous.
- Budget
- $$$ · roughly $9 for the 5 oz a board of twelve needs.