{"id":322,"date":"2024-09-16T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/16\/charcuterie-board-geometry\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T14:00:00","slug":"charcuterie-board-geometry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/16\/charcuterie-board-geometry\/","title":{"rendered":"Charcuterie Board Geometry for Humans."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A charcuterie board is a seating chart for snacks. You need height, color, empty space, and something briny to reset the palate. I learned this in a cooking class and in ten years of hungry open-house guests grazing while pretending not to.<\/p>\n<p>Start with the big items, fill gaps with nuts and grapes, put knives where right-handed people can reach them, label the blue cheese so the cautious can navigate. Crackers in a bowl so they do not fly everywhere when someone tells a story with hands.<\/p>\n<p>I serve boards before dinner when people arrive staggered. Nobody hangs in the kitchen asking if they can help while I am reducing sauce. They have a job: eat and admire my olive placement.<\/p>\n<p>Perfection is not the goal. Abundance is. Leave them wanting a little so dinner still shines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fold the salami, fan the cheese, leave no dead zones of loneliness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-parks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}