Cheese Primer

Steve Jenkin's CHEESE PRIMER is a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club's Good Cook Club. It is also the winner of the James Beard Food and Beverage Book Award. A mere two years after its release, it is quickly being recognized as the premiere guide to all things cheesy.

Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club's Good Cook Club

Winner of the 1997 James Beard Food and Beverage Book Award

81,000 copies in print

Winner of James Beard Foundation Book Awards (Beverage/Ref/Technical) 1997

Steven Jenkins is the author of "Cheese Primer", which won the James Beard Award and is in its tenth printing. Currently a vice president and the chief specialty foods buyer at Fairway, he has written for numerous food publications and appears regularly on television and radio. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

A WORLD BEYOND BRIE Brimming with knowledge, enthusiasm, and decided opinions, Steven Jenkins's CHEESE PRIMER is everything you need to know to judge, savor, choose, store, and serve the terrific variety of cheeses now available. He presents a region-by-region guide through France, Italy, and Switzerland, as well as the British Isles, Spain, the U.S., and other cheese-producing countries. Here are all the well- and little-known cheese worth exploring-and some surprising heavyweights you may want to avoid ) imported Brie, for example. A complete primer, its features include pairing wine with cheese, orchestrating a cheese course, and local gems to seek when traveling abroad. Steven Jenkins is the first American to be awarded France's prestigious Chevalier du Taste-Fromage. He has created and/or revamped the cheese counters at Dean & Deluca, the Fairway Market, Balducci's, and other celebrated fine food shops in New York and across the country. "A Broadway impresario hos' hit is food" (New York Times), Mr. Jenkins lives with his family in New York City.

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