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WRAP COMPLETES THE GIFT
Overall rating: 4.5 / 5 from 8 reviews.
Review topics: ["gift","instructions","options","cheese plate","feel","book","copy","life","plates","interest","cake","illustrations","delight","look"].
"I read an article about this book in the newspaper. Since we entertain frequently, I thought I would get a copy and try it. The title could be Cheese Plates for Dummies. Everything is listed that you need including the size of the platter that you need. The book has beautiful step by step pictures to follow. I have used it twice and the trays were beautiful. I have since purchased four other books for friends and family."
"I’ve received a free copy from The Dial Press in exchange for a free and unbiased review. ” What a delightful, easy to read, and use cookbook for cheese lovers! EASY PEASY instructions for creating beautiful arrangements on a variety of board themes. From cheese, salamies, produce, carbs, spreads, herbs each chapter is beautifully illustrated, gives you an easy to follow shopping list, and photos to arrange your culinary delights! What a simple way to wow your friends! Just add wine! You will love this book and it would make an absolutely excellent hostess gift. Out on 5/12, get your copy today! Thank you Potter, Ten Speed Press, The Dial Press for my free copy!"
"I’ve received a free copy from The Dial Press in exchange for a free and unbiased review. What a delightful, easy to read, and use cookbook for cheese lovers! EASY PEASY instructions for creating beautiful arrangements on a variety of board themes. From cheese, salamies, produce, carbs, spreads, herbs each chapter is beautifully illustrated, gives you an easy to follow shopping list, and photos to arrange your culinary delights! What a simple way to wow your friends! Just add wine! You will love this book and it would make an absolutely excellent hostess gift. Out on 5/12, get your copy today! Thank you Potter, Ten Speed Press, The Dial Press for my free copy!"
"Cookbook author Marissa Mullen wants you to play with your food again, but in a more artistic and creative way than when you were a child. After gaining fame on Instagram with her stunning cheese plates, Mullen is sharing her technique in That Cheese Plate Will Change Your Life. Using what she calls the cheese by numbers method, Mullen offers an array of plates that look formidable but are easy-peasy to prepare using her six steps. Mullen shows presentations for every season and occasion. The game day plate features fried chicken wings and a morning plate includes bagels. I am particularly fond of the romantic plate with heart-shaped brie. Mullen's recipes include chocolate-covered strawberries for that last plate and capress skewers, combining mozzarella with grape tomatoes. While Mullen suggests numerous intriguing garnishes for cheese plates, I would have liked her to have included more information about the cheese varieties themselves. I've received a free copy of this book from The Dial Press in exchange fora free and unbiased review."
"I’ve always found cheese plates to be a visual delight and a challenge to execute in a way that looks effortless. That Cheese Plate Will Change Your Life by Marissa Mullen (with the prettiest illustrations by Sara Gilanchi) gives me hope that I can create the cheese plates that my guests can simultaneously envy and enjoy. The subtitle, The Cheese By Numbers Method, explains how to successfully build a plate and the accompanying numbered step-by-step photos show you how making the most intimidating plates is easy when broken down by stages. Creating a cheese board is an art form and Mullen explains how anyone can be a cheese artist, so to speak beginning with a cheese cutting guide that helps create cheeses that invite tasting. I appreciate how this book is structured based on meat, fruit, carbs and herbs. Of special interest is the chapter The Salami River and Beyond which is full of gracefully folded meats from salami to mortadella to vegan fig salami as well as a few unique meat options such as grilled marinated shrimp skewers and chorizo. Basically there is a cheeseboard for everyone and every taste including a few vegan options. This book would make a great gift for anyone who loves to entertain from the college student to the novice or more experienced home cook. I’ve received a free copy from The Dial Press in exchange for a free and unbiased review. I’ve yet to make any of these cheese plates as I recently received the book but I do look forward to making the That It’s Your Birthday Plate, a glorious two tiered round cheese plate in the form of a cake, surrounded with nuts, figs, fruit, flowers and candles. What’s not to love about a savory cake made out of cheese?"
"Golly. Really. The cheese plate will actually change your life, and this book is just so good, nay delightful, at proving this point. I used to work in the field of cheese, and I found That Cheese Plate Will Change Your Life absolutely endearing, especially because the number one inquiry I’d usually get ABOUT cheese is if my workplace sold pre-made cheese plates. A cheese section can be overwhelming. Cheese can be overwhelming. People love cheese and hate being overwhelmed. People love cheese and want to have a cheese plate, but they fear messing one up should they risk making one. And what the author Marissa Mullen is trying to do is eliminate that feeling, of allowing one to give in to crafting a cheese plate rather than be overwhelmed by the prospect of making the thing. And Mullen sticks by this method of ease. The content of the book itself is definitely not advanced or particularly in-depth about the intricacies of cheese, and nor does it want to be. In fact, it insists on simplicity, on a paint-by-numbers-esque method that focuses on developing a cheese plate with unique flavor profiles and textures and dips and savory touches and fresh produce. That Cheese Plate Will Change Your Life is accessible and fun and is more about creativity and less about complication. More about care and less about fussiness, even though the cheese plates Mullen is creating are nothing short of gorgeous and whimsical and smart. So, so smart. Some of her cheese plate concepts include a pimento plate, with slices of peaches and tomatoes and pockets of butter crackers, a beach picnic plate, with grilled summer squash and skewers of mozzarella and a bowl of marinated feta, and a plate referred to as that fireside plate, which is just the most ingenious holiday array I have ever seen in my life, with wedges of Midnight Moon and dots of cranberries and red-and-green M&M cookies. Just, yes. A cheese plate surrounded by cookies is the world’s biggest yes that ever did yes. I did receive a free copy of this book from The Dial Press in exchange for a free and unbiased review, and what a pleasure the book has been. This book feels particularly relevant right now when it is the little things, the little indulgences and pleasures, the little beauties, even if a beautiful cheese plate for one or for a household, feel particularly good."
"I’ve always found cheese plates to be a visual delight and a challenge to execute in a way that looks effortless. That Cheese Plate Will Change Your Life by Marissa Mullen (with the prettiest illustrations by Sara Gilanchi) gives me hope that I can create the cheese plates that my guests can simultaneously envy and enjoy. The subtitle, The Cheese By Numbers Method, explains how to successfully build a plate and the accompanying numbered step-by-step photos show you how making the most intimidating plates is easy when broken down by stages. Creating a cheese board is an art form and Mullen explains how anyone can be a cheese artist, so to speak beginning with a cheese cutting guide that helps create cheeses that invite tasting. I appreciate how this book is structured based on meat, fruit, carbs and herbs. Of special interest is the chapter The Salami River and Beyond which is full of gracefully folded meats from salami to mortadella to vegan fig salami as well as a few unique meat options such as grilled marinated shrimp skewers and chorizo. Basically there is a cheeseboard for everyone and every taste including a few vegan options. This book would make a great gift for anyone who loves to entertain from the college student to the novice or more experienced home cook. I’ve received a free copy from The Dial Press in exchange for a free and unbiased review. I’ve yet to make any of these cheese plates as I recently received the book but I do look forward to making the That It’s Your Birthday Plate, a glorious two tiered round cheese plate in the form of a cake, surrounded with nuts, figs, fruit, flowers and candles. What’s not to love about a savory cake made out of cheese?"
"Back when I was in my 20s, I decided to give up dairy. I figured I’d last a week or so and then collapse into a pile of ice cream, a failure. But you know, it turned out I was okay not having ice cream. I was okay not drinking milk. It was not getting to have cheese that broke me. I decided that dairy-free was not the life for me. (To be fair, that was more than a few years ago, and non-dairy cheeses have come a long way in since then. ) So when I was gifted this book, That Cheese Plate Will Change Your Life, I was immediately all in. I love a cheese plate, but I’ll be the first to admit that there is very little art in my game. I can slice cheese and put it on a board with some crackers, and that’s usually when I call it done. I have a feeling I won’t be satisfied with that anymore, especially since I know that there could be a salami river there. Author Marissa Mullen has spent years making cheese plates, eating them, photographing them, posting them on social media, teaching others how to make them, and sharing them with family and friends. And she has come up with a foolproof way to cheese by numbers, making it easy to create the perfect cheese plate. You just follow her simple six-step formula, and you can make your own perfect cheese tray. Or you can try one of the dozens she’s already perfected and just fill them in according to her directions. There’s That Back to Basic Plate that’s for beginners or That Cheese Party Plate, perfect for any gathering. A plate for lovers of goat cheese, French cheese, even a non-dairy cheese plate. And all that is just in the first chapter. You haven’t even gotten to the salami river yet. Using Mullen’s paint by cheese method, you start with cheese, then meat, produce, crunch, dip, and garnish. And the cheese plates in this book take you through that step by step. First you learn a cheese plate that is about the cheese, then you move on to adding meat (the river). Next comes the produce, and on through the entire method. These plates give you so many options for picnics, for tailgating, for the different seasons, for meat lovers, for brunch, for dessert, for any group or gathering you can think of. In addition to all the information you could ever need about cheese or cheese plates (not really—learning everything about cheese could take a lifetime, but this certainly gives you everything you need to get started), Mullen includes a handful of helpful recipes to up your game even more when you’re ready, like the Buffalo Mozzarella with Roasted Tomatoes and Balsamic Glaze, Prosciutto-Wrapped Melon with Goat Cheese and Basil, That Quick Pickle, and Dark Chocolate-Covered Strawberries. I am thrilled that That Cheese Plate Will Change Your Life is a thing in the world that really exists. I know that I will use this as a resource often, for holidays and dinner parties and even for those nights that I don’t want to cook. Forget the spa days and pedicures, cheese is my new self-care! I received a free copy of That Cheese Plate Will Change Your Life from The Dial Press in exchange for a free and unbiased review, with many thanks."
