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Article: Got cheese?
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- Minnesota Monthly
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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How to buy it, serve it, and just plain love it.
Cheese is an adventure. The aromas, flavors, and textures offer endless exploration. Consider the choices: ripened, unripened, washed rind, blue, hard, soft, or semisoft cheeses with flavors that run from strong and sharp to mild and gentle. The cheese varies with the type of milk used to make them-mild and creamy cow's milk cheese, tangy goat's milk cheese, or assertive sheep's milk cheese. Each is truly different, influenced by what the milk-producing animal ate (grass, juniper hedges, hay), the way the cheese is processed, and the cultures and molds introduced to age it. (See the sidebar for a general guide.)
While each cheese tells a ...