What Is Cheese
Begin with the basic question of what cheese is, then explore the milk, time and craft behind it. This hub brings together the definition, comparisons with other cultured dairy foods, cheese names in different languages and a closer look at familiar claims.
Start here: Cheese: The Complete Guide, available now, for the foundation, then How to Tell Cheese Styles Apart: Milk, Rind, Texture and Method, available now, to explore how styles differ.
Cheese: The Complete Guide
Picture milk draining through perforated pottery in sixth-millennium-BC Kuyavia, Poland.
Why Is Some Cheese So Prized? Milk, Time and Craft
Picture a wheel of Parmigiano Reggiano waiting its turn, while you contemplate another mouthful.
Cheese vs Other Cultured Dairy Foods
In West Sumatra, buffalo milk ferments inside bamboo tubes covered with banana leaves.
Cheese in Different Languages: Fromage, Formaggio, Queso, Käse
Picture cheese taking shape inside a mould.
Cheese Myths Debunked
A little cheese before bed, then you settle in and wait for the dreams.