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Article: The Cheese Course: Hey, there's mold in my cheese!
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- December 31, 2008
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As a child, there was no way that I was going to willingly put a
piece of cheese that had mold in it into my mouth. It ranked near
the bottom of my least-liked foods, right next to anchovies and
capers. But somewhere in between my parents' love for trying exotic
foods (sorry, Dad, I'm still not trying kimchi) and their constant,
"Just take a no-thank-you bite," my taste for blue cheese changed
and now I love it. In fact, it might actually be becoming my
favorite category of cheese.
Blue cheeses, once the closely guarded secrets of European
cheesemakers, are one of the fastest growing categories of cheese
and the trickiest to produce. They range from soft and creamy to
hard and crumbly; they ...