Cheese and crackers - and wine!

"Cheese and crackers" was a school lunchbox favourite when I was a kid. The crackers, always a Ritz, and the cheese, some kind of Wisconsin cheddar. This American tradition of combining cheese with a thin wheat-based product actually goes back centuries. Among many things it was a food ration in the Civil War where soldiers referred to it as a "square meal". Much like the UK equivalent of the ploughman's lunch, cheese and crackers was very much peasant food. But much like my taste buds, which probably couldn't stand a Ritz cracker nowadays (no offence to Ritz fans), a lot of has changed.