On Jan 28, 9:40*pm, tert in seattle > wrote:
> for pizza, with red sauce
>
> here's what I just tried and liked -- more mozz than the others
>
> parmigiano reggiano
> sharp white cheddar
> roquefort
> low-moisture mozzarella
>
> how many four cheese combinations are there anyway?

How many cheeses are there? Combinatorics tells us that the number of
combinations one can make by choosing k objects from a pool of n
(ignoring order and disallowing repetitions) is

n!
--------
k!(n-k)!

where '!' indicates factorial. So with 10 cheeses to choose from,
there are 210 four-cheese combinations. The number goes up fast.

I like the tang of a little sharp provolone added to fresh mozzarella.
That's only two cheeses, but good. (Provolone is basically aged
mozzarella.) Provola is hard to find, but it too is a good pizza
cheese.

Jerry
--
"I view the progress of science as being the slow erosion of the
tendency to dichotomize." Barbara Smuts, U. Mich.