It's a great time to be a cheese lover. Thousands of fine cheeses are produced around the world, and more are being created every day. In the following pages, we present 100 great cheeses, from Old World classics to new stars developed by artisanal American dairies. In all, you'll find cheeses from 11 countries; taking the lead are the United States, with 32, and France, with 29. We applied three basic criteria in whittling our list: diversity of origin and character, the cheese's affinity .....

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