How to Build the Perfect Cheese Board | Video

By: Maggie Ward

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Stevie Lee Webb of The Cheese Shop in Carrboro, North Carolina, leads us through how to build a balanced and beautiful cheese board with a step-by-step guide on selecting a variety of flavors and textures and dressing it up with the proper accoutrement and utensils. Working from the concept of a cheese clock, Webb places four cheeses ranging in flavors from “mild-to-wild” for a European-style board.

Webb opened The Cheese Shop with his wife and co-owner Michelle in 2022 in North Carolina’s Triangle region, combining their passions for cheesemongering and entrepreneurship. Their shared goal was to create a bustling gathering place to indulge in the best cheeses from producers in their own backyard and around the world. They’ll be expanding that passion this fall to reimagine the 80-square-foot Cheese Shop as a 2,000-square-foot cheese experience named the Wedgewood Cheese Bar in Carrboro. Wedgewood will offer a 15-seat, chef-driven cheese bar, an 18-foot cheese case filled with product ready to be cut and wrapped to order, and an elevated mezzanine for diners to take in the whole operation.

“We’ve been able to do a lot with a little over the past couple of years, but with Wedgewood you’re really going to see our vision and experience at maximum horsepower,” said Webb. “We finally have the space and independence to manifest this other-worldly, happy place, an homage to my native Britain and Europe, and other North American places we’ve called home. I’m looking forward to being your rather enthusiastic tour guide.”