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How Can I Learn about Artisan Cheese?


Cheesemonger Tim Gaddis leads the way to information on speciality cheeses.

How Can I Make Flavored Chèvre at Home?


Melissa Wood explains how to make your own flavored chèvre using your own herbs and spices

blocks and wedges of blue cheese stacked together with blue veins prominently exposed

What Makes Blue Cheese Blue?


Melissa Wood explains where blue cheese gets its blue colored spots

Two hands wrapping a wedge of cheese in plain brown paper

How to Wrap Cheese


Preserve your wedges (and pyramids and cylinders) with these folding strategies

Rennet’s Role


Ever wonder how liquid milk turns into solid cheese? The answer lies in a bit of molecular magic

Creamy, leaf-wrapped blue cheese broken apart with a knife

Does Cheese Have Gluten?


Is cheese fair game for those on a gluten-free diet?

closeup of the rind of mimolette cheese

What Are Cheese Mites?


Cheese mites are considered everything from a nuisance to something to celebrate—what are they and what do they do?

A plastic-gloved researcher holds up a petri dish of Listeria bacteria

Coming Clean on Listeria


A microbiologist explains how to keep cheese safe from bad bacteria

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