The room rapidly filled with cheese, and then with sandwiches, as the bread and cheese were cut and assembled.
Most people don't consider chocolate popsicles, sugary cereal and bagels filled with cream cheese as healthy foods.
Today, the city is awash with eclectic eating venues, ranging from thriving market stalls selling fresh seafood to informal street stands serving the typically Balkan snack burek (a meat or cheese filled pastry) to relaxed cafes offering fresh salads grown in gardens just metres from the old town cobblestones.
At my favorite Mexican joint, I exchanged my customary cheese-filled chile relleno for a bowl of sopa con pollo.
Caves and cellars are filled with wheels of cheese that range from stinky to imported and aged, plus varieties made in the hotels themselves.
We picked out a range of flavors, including the "grasshopper" (chocolate cake filled with fudge and topped with mint cream-cheese frosting, cake crumbs, chocolate chips and a buttercream rosette) and the "Elvis" (vanilla cake filled and frosted with banana-cream-cheese icing, with a swirl of peanut butter and peanut-butter chips).
Other top choices are the oyster bocata (sandwich) with barbecued foie gras and homemade sweet potato bread, and the playful chorizo lollipop filled with quince jelly and goat cheese.
Standouts are a gentle potato soup, garnished with black-radish slices and crispy kale, and pork-filled potato dumplings in a frothy smoked-cheese mousse.
Burrata, a cream-filled ball of mozzarella, can be found at cheese shops and fine grocery stores.
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Nico's Arepas Grill cooks up Venezuelan arepas, savory cornmeal patties filled with ingredients such as shredded beef and salty cheese.
Its stents are more like Swiss cheese, full of tiny holes that are filled with medication.
Shops and restaurants along the river walk are filled with a new group of Nevadans who are enjoying cheese plates and wine.
Aboard the boat was a cloth-covered picnic table set with handmade clay dishes and mugs, holding corn chips and homemade guacamole, a salad prepared with freshly picked chinampa produce, such as white onion and tomatoes, and served with two types of ranchero cheese, as well as plates of Oaxaca-style tamales filled with mushroom and guajillo chilli sauce.
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