{"id":6011,"date":"2014-04-02T13:36:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=6011"},"modified":"2014-04-02T15:33:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T19:33:02","slug":"science-cheese-weirder-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/science-cheese-weirder-think\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Cheese Is Weirder Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering what&#8217;s up with the different colors of cheese, who can eat raw milk cheese, and why some cheeses have random holes in them? This article from&nbsp;<strong>Wired<\/strong> has the answers. Need even more answers to curd questions? Consult our past <a href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/category\/ask-the-monger\">Ask the Cheesemonger<\/a> columns.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The science behind the transformation from plants to milk to cheese is amazing. In fact, cheese has much in common with wine and beer: They result from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/08\/microbes-food-beer\/\" target=\"_blank\">fermentation<\/a> by microorganisms; they are \u201cvalue-added\u201d products where processing greatly increases the value; and they reflect local climate and terrain. Cheese has fascinated humanity for a long time, inspiring people to refer to it as everything from \u201cthe wine of foods\u201d (Vivenne Marquis and Patricia Haskell) to \u201cmilk\u2019s leap toward immortality\u201d (Clifton Fadiman)\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/03\/everythingyoudidntknowyouwantedtoknow-about-the-science-of-cheese\/\">Read more on Wired<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by&nbsp;<em>See-ming Lee\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/seeminglee\/3866969210\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find the answers to all your curdy questions with this excerpt from The Science of Cheese<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"coauthors":[70],"class_list":["post-6011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cheese-bites"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v24.4) - 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