kottke.org posts about cheese

Cheese made with "gecko technology"Mar 30 2012

If I hadn't seen it on the official Emmentaler web site, I would have thought this video about cheese producers using geckos to produce better cheese was fake.

Pesky flies buzzing around our cows cause them stress. And this affects the quality of the milk. Which is why we quite simply put a gecko on our cows which gets rid of all these pesky flies -- by eating them. The result is milk that is smoother, and cheese that is smoother too.

(thx, urs)

Update: sigh This is likely an early April Fools joke or whatever. INTERNET, I THOUGHT WE HAD AGREED THAT APRIL FOOLS IS STUPID AND FOR STUPID PEOPLE AND EVEN IF THAT IS NOT THE CASE TO CONFINE THE STUPIDITY TO ONE DAY, APRIL FIRST, AND NOT DO ANYTHING BEFOREHAND. God, I hate April Fools Day. Fuck you.

Cheese or font?Oct 13 2011

You're given a name and you have to guess if it's a cheese or a font. This might be the most difficult game I've ever played. (thx, @ziggy444)

Scandalous: fake cheese used at fancy restaurantDec 02 2009

But it's not what you think. At Le Bernardin, one of the highest calibre restaurants in NYC, Eric Ripert and his chefs use "cheap, fake Swiss cheese full of artificial flavors" as a baseline to normalize everyone's palates so that sauces can be judged fairly in the kitchen.

In terms of flavor, that cheese tastes identical all year long...so it give us a reference, and we can judge fairly.

Cheese. Is there anything it can't do?

Make your own cheese at homeFeb 06 2009

Making cheese: how to turn five gallons of milk into six pounds of cheese.

This recipe for a basic hard cheese works for any kind of milk. I primarily use my own fresh goats' milk, but have made it quite successfully with cow's milk purchased from the grocery as well as raw cow's milk from a local farmer.

(thx, grant)

Update: No rennet? Just use lemon juice. (thx, nathan)

A glossary of cheese terms.Oct 10 2007

A glossary of cheese terms.

Giganti: A very large style of Provolone, typically weighing 200 to 600 pounds and measuring up to approximately 7 feet in length.

There's a surprising amount of language around cheese.

Cheese by Hand is a project byApr 26 2006

Cheese by Hand is a project by Michael Claypool and Sasha Davies to "capture the experience of cheesemakers around the country, in their own voices, and share them with consumers and cheese fans everywhere". Jasper Hill Farms cheese = great; audio about JHF approach to cheese, even better. (via megnut, who, if you haven't noticed, is blogging up a storm about food lately)

Americans are getting more excited about cheese these daysApr 27 2005

Americans are getting more excited about cheese these days.

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