A great cheese board is not a styled photo shoot project. It is a snack table for grown ups. The thing that separates the boards we keep coming back to from the ones we abandon is restraint. Three cheeses. Three accompaniments. A pile of bread and crackers.

For the three cheeses, pick a mild creamy, a sharp aged and a funky soft. A young goat brie, a six month manchego and a triple cream blue is one combination we love. The shapes should differ. Slice one into wedges, leave one as a wheel, crumble the third into a small bowl.

For the three accompaniments, pick a sweet, a salty and a sour. A spoon of honeycomb, a handful of marcona almonds, a small jar of pickled cherries. Add a small mountain of bread and a few sturdy crackers, two knives, and let people make their own bites. That is the whole brief.

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