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Mmm. Cheese...

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Now that I think about it, I don't have much in the way of interesting ones in the house. A nice cheddar, lovely parmesan, and cream cheese, i.e. staples.

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We've just polished off an Epoisse, and still have a good chunk of delicious Lancashire Bomb. There's some Cambridge Blue left too, but it was slightly too mild.

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I recently had one called Mimolette (I think), which i haven't had before. It looked like bright orange Gjtost, but thankfully didn't taste anything like it; it tasted like slightly cheesy caramel.

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An atlas without maps is what I call a gazeteer.

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Or gazetteer, when I'm in a spelly sort of mood.

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Either way agreed (I have in the past in inattentive moments produced gazzeteer)

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... which is a reference work detailing the various places one may find footballers from Gateshead?

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*snigger and association of ideas with "Windaz 2000"*

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This. Yes. This is the second time I have seen "gazetteer" this year, which is probably the second time this millennium - and t'other time I was using it myself. Bring back the gazetteer! No picture is worth a thousand words! Etc etc.

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Hhmm, I am the only person voting contrary to the majority. Wow. Well, my rationale for voting this way goes like this: classically, yes, an atlas is only maps. However, as with this cheese atlas you describe, I take atlas to mean any book that concerns specific places in reference to specific things; maps may or may not be included (but most likely will be.) I see the word gazetteer mentioned above, but since I don't think it's in popular usage anymore, I think atlas has started to usurp its meaning.

Also, yay cheese. (Why can't I get Wensleydale without cranberries?! What is it with SoCal supermarkets?!)

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Interesting! The book is an American one, so if there are minor regional or country-based variations here, you're more likely to be coming from the direction the book's authors are than previous commenters are.

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Maps are what make an atlas an atlas, and not some other form of reference work. Also, hmm. Cheese.

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I like maps! (Also cheese, but two types in the fridge - both variants of cheddar - will have to do me for a little, what with deadlines and all.)

Your atlas also needs (and has, I hope) historical dimensions. Maps of Medieval cheeses!

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It's an "atlas" of American cheeses, so medieval content would be low, but I LOVE the idea of maps of medieval cheeses. I had been thinking about it at Leeds - well, not maps per se, but that England was importing northern French cheeses by the late Middle Ages and therefore, quite possibly, long before.

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You know, if we collected data as we found it, we could create an atlas, gradually, for our own delectation.

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It's an "atlas" of American cheeses, so ~~medieval~~ content would be low

There. Fixed that for you.

*giggles and runs away*

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An atlas should be a collection of maps, with the associated words being supporting material, IMO. I would have expected a "cheese atlas" to be a series of maps indicating local cheeseries, with essays on regional cheesemaking practices and cheese terroir and stuff.

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