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Related: About this forumTo Find Out Who You Are, Peer Into the Cheese Ball!!!
'A cheese ball is the culinary equivalent of a Rorschach test. How you regard the creamy orb depends very much on where you were raised, how you were raised and especially when facing one of the lesser examples your emotional fortitude.
A colleague suggested that a cheese ball is one of those things her European parents would point to and say, Americans will never understand food. They are clearly not from the Midwest, where cheese balls are as much a part of the culinary lexicon as fish fries, hot dish and brats.
I cant imagine you would go to a cocktail party and not see one, said Robin Davis, who works for the mayor of Columbus, Ohio, and for years was the food editor of The Columbus Dispatch, that citys daily newspaper.
Part of the appeal is history (more on that in a moment) and part of it is practicality. A cheese ball demands very little of a cook. Its not a culinary commitment, Ms. Davis said, and it travels well.'>>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/dining/cheese-ball-recipe-snack.html?
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To Find Out Who You Are, Peer Into the Cheese Ball!!! (Original Post)
elleng
Dec 2016
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)1. And then there's fruitcake... n/t
elleng
(130,714 posts)2. :rofl:
Warpy
(111,124 posts)3. I've never done a cheese ball or log in my life
but I used to make a damned good party cheese in a crock that was the same idea: cream cheese, another sharp and very assertive cheese or two (crumbly was best), lots of garlic and freshly cracked black pepper. Nothing else was necessary but the little cheese knives to get it from crock to cracker or bread or raw veggie.
A good time was generally had by all.
pscot
(21,024 posts)4. Nothing says sophisticated dining
like a complimentary cheeseball and a basket of rolls.
Phentex
(16,330 posts)5. It's been a holiday tradition for years...
appetizers for Xmas eve while waiting for my mother-in-law to burn the sweet potato biscuits.
I make a chili pepper cheese ball and it always gets gobbled up.