Where's tha' cheese?

We like cheese. I know, I know. Stuffed with saturated fat. Chockablock with cholesterol. Zero fiber. Calories, calories, calories.

But we like cheese. Buy the low-fat kind. Some taste pretty good. Some closely resemble plastic. Linger in the dairy bin for days. Weeks. Eons. Grow mold. Ick.

Where's tha' cheese?

Tom, who is often--not always, but very very often--the guilty party, woke up the other noon with the answer.

He illustrated Gary Zukav's physics bestseller, The Dancing Wu Li Masters (see the Introduction for Tom's credit). So we figure if anyone can come up with a cutting-edge solution to the vanishing cheese problem, it's gotta be

That's it. Is this easy, or what? Gimme that.

Next time, take out the cheese. Cut it in half. Put half BACK in the fridge. Then go do it: melt, grate, slice, dice that sucker into oblivion.

It's okay. You still have HALF in the fridge.

Next time. Nerves of steel. Take out the cheese. Cut it in half. Put half back IN THE FRIDGE. Then cheese-out without shame.

Because it never ends. Every time you take out the cheese, cut it in half. PUT HALF BACK IN THE FRIDGE. And cheese will always be there. For you. Your cheese will last forever.