Structure First — Cheese

The 20-Session
Cheese Course

An analytical path from milk to wheel: read cheese's structure the way you'd read a balance sheet — production, tasting, styles, affinage, pairing, and the sourcing questions that actually matter. Third in the Structure First series, alongside wine and cacao.

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Before you start — two things.
1 · Open the files in a browser, not a file preview. These pages run on JavaScript (the tasting instrument, decoders, quizzes, flashcards, calculator). On iOS, open in Safari (or host the folder) rather than a Files-app preview, and everything works.
2 · Progress saves per device under one shared key, so your place and quiz scores carry across all seven files on the same browser. Tasting needs actual cheese — the one thing the course can't supply.

A · Foundations & Tasting

01What cheese is→ 02The Tasting Instrument→ 03Calibration & the flavor wheel→ 04Comparative technique & the label→

B · Milk & Coagulation

05Milk→ 06Coagulation→ 07Culture & the microbial cast→

C · Styles Across the Spectrum

08Fresh & unripened→ 09Bloomy rind→ 10Washed rind→ 11Semi-hard & alpine→ 12Hard & aged→ 13Blue→

D · Making & Affinage

14Curd to wheel→ 15Affinage & faults→

E · Pairing

16Pairing by principle (wine)→ 17Beer, cider & spirits→ 18The cheese board→

F · Sourcing & Market

19The sourcing playbook→ 20Consolidation & final→
After the course

Where to take the palate next

The American Cheese Society (ACS) runs a Certified Cheese Professional (CCP) exam and annual conference — the closest thing cheese has to a formal credential. The Oxford Companion to Cheese is the standard reference. A good specialty cheese counter with knowledgeable staff will teach you more than any book.

Want a companion cheese sourcing list — specific shops and wedges by style, the way the wine and cacao courses had theirs? Ask and it gets built.

Structure First — Cheese · 20 sessions across 7 files + this index.
To host: keep all files in one folder, rename this file to index.html, and deploy the folder to Cloudflare Pages (no build step). Progress is stored in your browser under the key sf_cheese_progress_v1, separate from the wine and cacao courses.