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We Asked Top Chefs to Choose Their Favorite Cheese

Salty, creamy, stinky, and delicious: The best under-the-radar picks for your board.

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Richard Vines

You don’t have to forsake Stilton, manchego or camembert. But if you want to spice up your cheese plate or impress a host, we have a few suggestions to help you get creative.

Bloomberg asked top chefs from around the world to pick out their favorite under-the-radar cheeses. Here’s what they had to say. (Click on the cheese names for links to shops where you can find them.)

Coupole

Country: U.S.
Chef: Eric Ripert (Le Bernardin, New York)

Why: This American original  with a distinctive, snow-covered dome shape is an aged goat cheese from Vermont Creamery. “It has a lot of flavor and a great creamy texture,” says Ripert, who was born in France. “It is full of personality. It is wonderful to see that America is producing cheese as delicious as those in Europe.” Best of all, it’s relatively easy to find at places like Whole Foods.

Claousou

Country: France
Chef: Shane Osborn (Arcane, Hong Kong)

Why: This unpasteurized ewe’s milk cheese from Cévennes comes wrapped in spruce bark. “It’s a bit like a brie, with a light, smoky taste,” says Osborn, who serves it on his cheese board. “When ripe, it is absolutely delicious, very special. People in Hong Kong generally don’t like really strong cheeses or blue cheeses, but Claousou is subtle and elegant and smooth.”

Coupole and Claousou

Photographs: Evan Ortiz and Jason Alden/Bloomberg

Manouri

Country: Greece
Chef: Yotam Ottolenghi (Ottolenghi, London)

Why: This semi-soft, rindless cheese from the Greek regions of Thessaly and Macedonia is known for its gentle, milky flavor. “We use a lot in our restaurant,” Ottolenghi says. “It’s white and young, with cream added to it, which makes it sweeter and creamier than feta. It grills really well, so we tend to use it in salads, alongside grilled fruit or veg. Unlike halloumi, which is rather rubbery if not served warm, this one is crumbly, so can be eaten at room temperature as well.”

Bandel

Country: India
Chef: Vivek Singh (Cinnamon Club, London)

Why: This dry and salty cheese was originally brought to Bandel, in the east of India, by Portuguese settlers. “It’s a bit like feta,” Singh says. “It is great to crumble onto scrambled eggs. India isn’t really a cheese country, but this is special.”

Hooligan and Fourme d’Ambert

Photographs: Evan Ortiz and Jason Alden/Bloomberg

Hooligan

Country: U.S.
Chef: Daniel Humm (Eleven Madison Park, New York)

Why: This stinky, stinky cheese from Cato Corner Farm, in Colchester, Connecticut, flies under the radar. Humm, whose Eleven Madison Park holds the title of world’s best restaurant, says: “We’ve used it in the restaurant. It’s a washed rind, soft cheese that has beautiful aromas and intense flavor.” This one’s tough to find, but we tracked it down at Murray’s Cheese shops in New York.

Fourme d’Ambert

Country: France
Chef: Wolfgang Puck (Spago, Beverly Hills)

Why: This blue-veined French cheese, which dates back to the Middle Ages, is produced from the milk of cows that are fed on grass in the mountainous region of Puy de Dôme, in Auvergne. “I love Fourme d’Ambert,” Puck says. “It is a blue cheese but really creamy and easy to eat with wine and everything.”

Milleens

Country: Ireland
Chef: Pierre Koffmann (London)

Why: This soft farmhouse cheese is made from the milk of Friesian cows grazing on the mountains of the Beara peninsula of southwest Ireland. “It’s got a washed crust and it it is brilliant, with beautiful flavor,” says French-born Koffmann, who held three Michelin stars at La Tante Claire in London. He likes to eat it on its own.

Picodon

Country: France
Chef: Anne-Sophie Pic (Maison Pic, Valence)

Why: This goat’s milk cheese from the Rhône is a favorite of Pic, who holds three Michelin stars at Maison Pic in southeast France. She won the title of world’s Best Female Chef in 2011. “Picodon is from my region,” she says. “I grew up with this cheese.”

Old Winchester

Country: England
Chef: Angela Hartnett (Murano, London)

Why: This a is a firm pasteurized cheese handmade at Lyburn Farm, in the New Forest, in the south of England. “It reminds me of a Comté and a Parmesan,” Hartnett says. “It’s a nice cheese you can have on its own or with bread and chutney, or you can slice it really thin. It’s got a brilliant salty, crystalline crunch to it.”

Picodon and Old Winchester

Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg

Paria

Country: Peru
Chef: Virgilio Martinez (Central, Lima)

Why: Queso Paria, which has a soft flavor, is made from cow’s milk in the mountains of Peru. “It is creamy and salty and then the skin, which is also edible, is quite hard,” says Martinez, whose Lima restaurant Central ranks No. 5 in the world. “I like the different textures.”

Puigpedrós

Country: Spain
Chef: Albert Adrià (Tickets, Barcelona)

Why: This Catalan cow’s milk cheese is a favorite of Adrià’s. “It is soft, with notes of hazelnut and confit fruit,” Adrià says. “It has a lot of personality from the fields where it is made.”

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10 Largest Ships Ever Built

If you were to ask someone what the largest ship in the world was, they would probably tell you it is the Titanic. Nobody can deny that the Titanic was one of the largest and most famous of all time, but there just happen to be several other giant ships that most people have never been made aware of. Below we have provided a list of history’s 10 largest ships that were ever built.
The ships have been listed in accordance to their gross tonnage, dead-weight tonnage and their overall lengths. Included are the current record-holders either by ship class or individually as well as some that were former record-holders and scrapped vessels that were very large.

1. TI Class Supertanker

The TI Class Supertanker Oceania happens to be one of the most alluring vessels ever developed with an enormous capability for crude oil transfers. This class of ship possesses four of the biggest double-hulled supertankers on the planet. They also happen to be the largest ships currently sailing the seas. There are longer ships than these – such as the Maersk Triple E class container ships – but the TI Class still happen to be the most significant as far as dead-weight and gross tonnage are concerned.
The TI Oceania has dead-weight tonnage of approximately 440,000 tons combined with the acceleration potential of between 16 to 18 knots. This class of ship is a work of genius that is loaded with technology which challenges any obstacles that might take place on its travels. The length is 380 meters (1,247 feet).

2. Berge Emperor

Mitsui built the Berge Emperor in Japan during 1975 and it was one of the largest oil tankers ever constructed. The ship came in at a weight of 211,360 tons, had a length of 381.82 meters and was first launched on August 30, 1975. It was originally owned by Bergesen d.y. & Co and later was sold to Maastow BV in 1985. The name was then changed to “Emperor” and eventually was scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan on March 30, 1986.

3. CMA CGM Alexander von Humboldt

The CMA CGM Alexander von Humboldt was named after the man, and was an Explorer class container ship that was created for CMA CGM. Up until the arrival of the Maersk Triple E Class, it was the largest container ship in the world. The dead-weight tonnage of it was nearly 187,624 tons and its length is 396 meters (1,299 feet).

4. Emma Maersk

The Emma Maersk holds the ranks at no. 2 for the 10 biggest ships on the planet that is currently still in use. It is the A. P. Moller-Maersk Group’s first container ship in the E-class of eight in total, was first launched during 2006 and at that time was the biggest container ship that was ever built. In 2010 it and its fellow seven sister ships were among the longest container ships that had ever been built. It can carry approximately 11,000 (TEU) twenty-foot equivalent units or 14,770 TEU all depending upon the definition they choose to use. This massive ship carries around a length of 397.71 meters (1,305 feet).

5. Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller

Of all the ships in Maersk’s Tripe E class container vessels, the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller is the leader of them all. As of 2013 she is the longest ship in worldwide service and is also carries the biggest cargo potential in TEU of any ship that has yet been built. She entered service in July of 2013 and was built for Maersk in South Korea by Daewoo Shipbuilding Engineering (DSME).The Maersk Mc-Kinny Moller is 1,300 feet (399 meters) in length and possesses a cargo capability of 18,270 TEU containers and can travel at an utmost speed of 23 knots. As well as her sister ships, she is the world’s most streamlined and largest running container ship as of 2013.

6. Esso Atlantic

As far as big ships are concerned, Esso Atlantic is one of the most prominent names in the history of large ships. It proudly carries a massive length of 406.57 meters (1,333.9 feet) long and an amazing capacity for dead-weight at 516,891 tons. For a wonderful 35 years, Esso Atlantic has been serving the world with its continuous service level. It was certainly one of the best oil tanker ships of its time but was finally scrapped in Pakistan during 2001.

7. Batillus

In 1976 this supertanker was launched by Chantiers de l’Atlantique by Saint-Nazaire for Shell Oil’s French branch. Batillus and its sister ships Pierre Guillaumat, Prairial and Bellamya were the first vessels of homonymous Batillus class supertankers. They were some of the largest in the world and eventually got surpassed only by Seawise Giant which was constructed in 1976 and got extended during 1981. The four Batillus class ships did happen to have a larger gross tonnage however.
Batillus was the 4th largest ship in the world and made her last voyage on December 28, 1985 from Vestnes to Kaoshiung, Taiwan. It carried a dead-weight limit of nearly 554,000 tons, had a speed of 16 to 17 knots and a length of about 414.22 meters (1,359 feet).

8. Pierre Guillaumat

This behemoth was the 3rd largest in the world’s history and was named after Pierre Guillaumat who was the French politician and founder of the Elf Aquitaine oil industry. Chantiers de l’Atlantique built the Pierre Guillaumat in 1977 for Compagnie Nationale de Navigation.
It was left with some very large un-profitability and suffering demands and only got to serve for 6 years before it was scrapped. Having such huge proportions made the ship very limited as far as usability was concerned. As well, due to her dimensions she was never able to pass through either the Suez or Panama canals. The Pierre Guillaumat’s draft left her unable to enter a majority of the world’s ports and was forced to be moored on the rigs that were offshore as well as the oil terminals like Antifer. Its dead-weight tonnage was roughly 555,000 tons and could travel at nearly 16 knots of speed. The length of it ran 414.22 meters (1,360 feet) long.

9. Seawise Giant

This supertanker went through such names as Mont, Knock Nevis, Oppama, Happy Giant and Jahre Viking before finally being dubbed Seawise Giant. It went on to become the longest and largest ship by dead-weight tonnage because of its lengthening. The Seawise Giant at one time was also labeled as the Queen of Oceans and Rivers. Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd in Japan built her in the shipyard during 1979. Most unfortunately, during the Iraq-Iran War it was attacked and damaged from the air and was a sunken loss. There were however some pieces of the wreckage that could be repaired and salvaged and afterward she was back in service and known as the Happy Giant.
It got renamed to Mont after it was sold to Indian ship breakers and made its final quest in December of 2009. When that had happened, it was purposely beached in India to be demolished. Along with possessing the title of being the largest ship on the planet at the time, it also retains the title of being the largest ever built oil tanker type ship.

10. Prelude FLNG

Until now, the Prelude is the largest ship in the world ever constructed. Amazingly, it possesses a hull that is longer in length than the Empire State Building is tall. It was introduced to the ocean on December 2013 in South Korea and is 488 meters (1,601 feet) long, 74 meters (234 feet) wide. The hull of the ship belongs to Shell’s Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility, which just happens to be the biggest facility that was ever developed. There was amazingly more than 260,000 tons of steel that were used to build it and when it is in operation, it weighs more than 600,000 tons which is more than 5 times the weight of the biggest aircraft carrier in the world.