World's best grilled-cheese sandwich

Ashley Berman of Coral Springs, Florida won the grand prize for her recipe in Dupont's contest to find the very best grilled-cheese sandwich in the world.

She was awarded $10,000 and a Wine and Cheese Tour in California.

Her recipe's right here, along with all the other premier entries in the contest, which happened, completely unbeknownst to me, last year.

Memo to file: point out to my crack research team that this is unacceptable.

Where was I?

Oh, yeah, grilled-cheese sandwiches.

I like mine on white bread, made with cheddar cheese, then with just the thinnest, almost invisible, layer of Maille mustard on one surface of the cheese.

The knife applying the mustard must be definite and purposeful as it makes its single pass across the cheese: to stop or backtrack is to foul the knife with melted cheese, completely unacceptable and, at least in my kitchen, grounds for immediate termination.