Though most grocery-store cheese is sold tightly wrapped in plastic, this is a poor way to store it at home. Cheese needs air and moisture, but not too much of either.

This Silver Lake cheese shop has been around since 1972, long before you could find good French butter at your local supermarket and before there were superettes in every neighborhood.

The Thing You Should Actually Store Cheese In While you might think that storing cheese tightly wrapped with plastic wrap will retain moisture and keep it fresh, think again—cheese needs to breathe.