Article: 10 things to make with feta: The salty, sour-sweet `pickled cheese' adds flavor oomph to salads, pasta _ even tacos.

Byline: Cathy Thomas

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In ragtag crumbles or genteel chunks, feta cheese gives a frisky flavor edge to food. Its salty, sour-sweet sharpness gives a classic Greek salad its signature taste; romaine, olives, cucumbers and red onions would be just another salad without feta's tart earthiness.

Feta dates back thousands of years in Greece, where it's made with goat's milk or sheep's milk. Today, in America, it generally is made commercially with cow's milk.

This rindless, bed-sheet-white cheese is cured and stored in a brine made with salt and either water or its own whey (the watery liquid that separates from the curd during the ...

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