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Taking The Wraps Off Cheese Storage

Drop that cling wrap! It's time to stop suffocating your cheese.

What happens when you put a plastic bag over your head? You cut off your breathing.

Same thing happens to cheese. It gets hot and humid and then it starts to mold. That's why any cheese from semi-soft to hard should be wrapped in foil.

Truly soft cheeses like Brie, however, can still be cloaked in plastic wrap. Meantime, feta is best preserved in a solution of half skim milk and half water that has been boiled and cooled. Add salt if you want your feta - surprise! - saltier. Then submerge it and it'll keep half a year in your fridge.

All cheeses should be served at room temperature. Try not to keep taking them in and out of the icebox - this dries them out. If you're only going to be eating a wee bit of cheese, slice it off and let it warm while the rest remains comfortably refrigerated.

We enjoy answering your questions about cheeses, recipes, and cheese storage. In fact, Ed Edelman, owner of the Ideal Cheese Shop authored The Ideal Cheese Book, which is used as a reference guide by many retailers and importers.

Ed has also written and consulted for many articles on cheese for Family Circle Magazine, Manhattan User's Guide, Vintage, House Beautiful, Gourmet, and many others.

Feel free to post questions you may have about cheese in the Cheese Board, our online discussion board. You may also e-mail Ed directly.

Ed has appeared on cable TV, on the Food Channel's "Cooking Live," in December 1996 and February 1998.

Other honors and awards:

Ed Edelman was named the only American retailer to receive the Ordre de Merite Agricole by the French government. (1981)

Ed was inducted into the Guilde de fromagers, a fraternity of French cheese professionals. (1988)

Edward Edelman has also been Chairman of the National Association of Specialty Food, Retail Division, which was made up of over 800 retailers from the United States.

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