Fruit with Cheese

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Craig Claiborne’s Kitchen Primer

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1969

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Method

The easiest of all meal-endings perhaps is fruit with cheese and this, too, is in the best of taste. Fruit with cheese is generally served when there is no other dessert.

The fruits may include pears (there is a time-worn admonition in Italy that “you should never tell the peasant how good pears are with cheese or he’ll rob you out of both”), apples, grapes, oranges, peaches, black cher