Winter 2026The independent journal of cheese
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At the Table

Choosing and Storing Cheese

Choosing cheese starts with a question: what do you want to eat, and how will you use it? This subject brings together the reading routes for choosing, understanding labels and looking after cheese at home, so you can move from a tempting selection to a useful next step.

Start here: How to Read a Cheese Label, How to Store Cheese at Home and Mould on Cheese: When to Cut and When to Bin are available now. Choose the label guide before buying, the storage guide when you get home, or the mould guide when that is your immediate question.

Different cheese styles at a cheesemonger’s counter