French Food Bucket List; Cheese with Chutzpah

CAMBRIDGE - Formaggio Kitchen devotes a class and tasting to cheese with chutzpah. At "Bold and Beautiful" you can sample "robust blues to funky washed-rinds" along with wine pairings to help wash it down. Thursday, December 8, 6:30pm, $45. [Official Site]

BACK BAY- Eatocracy asks Chef Jean Joho of Brasserie Jo what five French dishes should be eaten before dying. Joho names six. [CNN]

WATERFRONT - On this and every Saturday and Sunday Aragosta at the Fairmont Battery Wharf holds its Ultimate Chocolate Bar complete with the chef's dessert tasting and (spikeable) hot cocoa made with melted Italian chocolate. Sat. & Sun., 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. [BostonChefs]

CAMBRIDGE - The Harvard Crimson muses on food, knowledge and technology and cannot resist writing "app-etite." [HC]