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milk that refused to die quietly and chose centuries of glorious decay instead.
means A solid food made by curdling and aging milk, separating the curds from the whey and letting them firm, ripen, or mold into endless varieties.
from From Old English 'cīese' or 'cēse,' which came from a West Germanic borrowing of Latin 'caseus,' meaning cheese. That Latin root spread widely: Spanish 'queso' and Italian 'cacio' keep the 'caseus' line, while German 'Käse' and Dutch 'kaas' share the same Germanic borrowing as English. (French 'fromage' and Italian 'formaggio' wandered off a different way, from Latin 'formaticus' — cheese 'made in a form' or mold.) The ultimate source of 'caseus' is uncertain, possibly tracing back to a Proto-Indo-European root suggesting fermentation or souring — fitting, for milk that went magnificently off on purpose.
- oldest find
- 7,200-year-old residue found on Croatian pottery
- mite-aged
- Mimolette gets flavor from living cheese mites
- world record
- a single cheddar once weighed over 57,000 pounds
- deadly variety
- Sardinia's casu marzu is fermented by live maggots
- sleep myth
- studies link cheese to vivid dreams, not nightmares
parmigiano reggiano — italian protected designation cheese from emilia-romagna, aged minimum 24 months, pdo since 1996
roquefort — french blue cheese from roquefort-sur-soulzon, made with sheep's milk, aoc since 1925
manchego — spanish cheese from la mancha region made from manchega sheep milk, pdo protected