The Spectator has published a glowing review of The Oxford Companion to Cheese: "The wonderful new Oxford Companion covers ever aspect of cheese — in sex, war, the Bible, Shakespeare, diplomacy, superstition and magical thinking." I love everything about Hawtree's thoroughly British review, except this: in the entry I wrote on the Congress of Vienna, I certainly did not claim the Congress was resolved by a cheese competition! Talleyrand’s proposal for each nation to submit th