When choosing cheese for a platter ... as well as some delicious garnishes/toppings. When choosing meats for your charcuterie platter, choose different textures, levels of saltiness and spice ...

A good platter can even serve as the entire meal in the best cases. Rome has many places where you can get some great taglieri and drinks. Here are my favorite cheese and meat platters in Rome.

Its bland flavor and plasticky consistency will not add anything to the platter at all, and it's not a particularly good match for the cured meats either. A mild cheese, such as havarti ...

Jay shares his eventful weekend with friends James and Anthony—from hat shopping and dealing with a broken pizza oven to blessing the meat and cheese platter at La Strada. Allyson and Chelsea can’t ...