NY Observer > CBRL Group Inc. http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/30228/feed Articles from Observer.com en Let Me Eat Cake! http://www.observer.com/node/34426 I love cheese. I love dessert. They are not the same thing.
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"Cheese"-cake. Ugh!

Once, after finishing a meal at a friend's house, he emerged from the kitchen with a plate of cheese. It's not that I'd never heard of such a thing before. It was like eating tapas, or having tea at 4 o'clock: delicious, a change. I ate the cheese. There was honey involved. It was very nice!

Dessert then never came. That was OK, too!

Then, the cocktail hour at people's houses started replicating what comes to the table at the beginning of a meal at an Italian or French restaurant: Chewy breadsticks with olive oil? Along with that damned cheese course. And no dessert.  read more »

Is it too middle-American to declare that cheese, even if it is a last course, cannot be a substitute for dessert? ]]> http://www.observer.com/node/34426#comments Real Estate CBRL Group Inc. Conde Nast Publications Inc. Snickers Triscuits Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:47:24 -0500 Observer Staff 34426 at http://www.observer.com