There are well-known guidelines for pairing food, including cheese, with wine. Professional recommendations make it easier to decide what to try when one is not an expert.

I’m not a fan of alcohol in any form. The last time I had any more than a sip was in college, and even those times I could count on one hand. What is a lady like me to do who wishes to combine different flavors with cheese?

Enter chocolate.

Chhurpi (also known as “durkha”) is the hardest cheese in the world. Yes, you spell it with a double “h.” Chhurpi has two varieties, soft and hard, and the ingredients are the same. Eating it fresh or pressing and drying the product, determines its firmness and shelf life.

This cheese is made from the milk of a yak or chauri (a cross between a cow and a yak) in the high, remote mountain regions of the Himalayas. Farmers have been . . .