cheese

A Palestinian Bedouin girl milks a sheep in her family's makeshift camp in the West Bank. Herders live close to their animals, their main source of income.

Making Cheese In The Land Of The Bible: Add Myrrh And A Leap Of Faith

7:32pm March 31, 2015

by Emily Harris

Spring in the West Bank means Bedouin herders' ewes and nanny goats are full of milk — and cheese making abounds. The traditional method relies on a few simple ingredients and a long cultural memory.

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True cheddar cheese can take months â even years â to age. So Claudia Lucero created a faux-cheddar that can be made in very little time.

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How To Make A Faux Cheddar In One Hour

3:46pm November 14, 2014

by NPR Staff

Once Claudia Lucero had mastered rapid cheese-making, she knew it was time to tackle cheddar. But cheddar takes months, even years, to age, so Lucero devised a pseudo version: the Smoky Cheater.

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Many artisan cheese producers never pasteurize their milk – it's raw. The milk's natural microbial community is still in there. This microbial festival gives cheese variety and intrigues scientists.

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The Ancient Art Of Cheese-Making Attracts Scientific Gawkers

12:33pm November 08, 2014

by Kerri Smith

In England, cheese-making is an art stretching back hundreds of years. But recently, scientists have become interested in the microbes that make the country's artisan cheeses so tasty.

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Shelburne Farms' clothbound cheddar has a bright yellow color because it's made from the milk of cows that graze on grasses high in beta-carotene.

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How 17th Century Fraud Gave Rise To Bright Orange Cheese

9:46am November 08, 2013

by Allison Aubrey

Kraft says it's ditching two artificial dyes in some of its macaroni and cheese products. But why did we start coloring cheeses orange to begin with? Turn's out there's a curious history here.

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Archaeologists believe that ancient farmers used pots made from these pottery shards to make cheese â a less perishable, low-lactose milk product.

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Archaeologists Find Ancient Evidence Of Cheese-Making

12:19pm December 17, 2012

Scientists have detected milk fat on 7,000-year-old pottery vessels from archaeological sites in Northern Europe. They think it's the earliest evidence of cheese-making, and they argue dairy products gave early farmers an evolutionary edge.

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