One rising trend in entertaining is the creation of a charcuterie, an appealing display of meats, cheeses, and fruits that will impress guests as an elegant appetizer. Many cheeses are sold in block ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We’re all more than capable of wielding a kitchen knife, but few of us can cut ingredients paper-thin and with absolute precision.

A thin wire cuts through cheese more easily and cleanly than a flat blade does. Now, researchers have built a microscopic version of a cheese slicer—with a carbon nanotube for a wire—that’s aimed at ...