Bread and cheese. Are there two better partners in food as reliable and satisfying? Well, maybe bread and four cheeses — mozzarella, ricotta, parmesan, and gorgonzola, to be exact. Whip up this flatbread flecked with olive oil and garlic as an appetizer for your next party, or even as a quick meal accompanied by salad or soup. Because it’s bread and cheese — you can’t go wrong.

These four cheeses together make up one of my favorite flavor combinations, if I can even call it that. I don’t know. Can I? Are four cheeses a “flavor?” Maybe not, but we can pretend.

Here’s the thing: the gorgonzola is necessary for this flatbread. It just is.

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Rebecca Haley-Park

Rebecca Haley-Park is culture's former editor and resident stinky cheese cheerleader. A native New Englander, she holds a BFA in creative writing from University of Maine at Farmington.