Jarlsberg

At least the evening does bring a glass of beer or wine, along with some Jarlsberg cheese and crackers.

Depending on whether you're melting cheese or adding more variety to your charcuterie board, you might consider Beaufort, Comté, Jarlsberg, Emmental, or Fontina.

You can expand your palette to cheese that's native to Norway, like Jarlsberg cheese, which has a much lower price point and similar melting texture to Gruyère.

Another Post recipe, from 1993, stars spaghetti squash and onions in a simple brothy number topped with grated Gruyere or Jarlsberg cheese.

In recent years, Mr. Gibson had played and toured with his son Jeremy’s playful ensemble Sir Jarlsberg, which offers an idiosyncratic mixture of Renaissance music and hip-hop that they called “Hark Hop.”