cheese plate focus on quality and simplicity: brebis and spicy cherry compote

My cooking mantra is this: focus on the quality of your ingredients and keep your preparation and presentation simple and you can never, never go wrong.  I was reminded of this recently when I went out to dinner with a friend. The food was disappointing but the cheese plate was what sealed the deal. There were heaping chunks of rubbery cheese, in various colros, two of which were so awful in appearance that the visual imagery still haunts me. My friend laughed endlessly about it.

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