Cheese is one of the most beloved foods in the world and has
been enjoyed for millennia. This popular dairy product comes in a wide range of
flavors, textures, and colors. There's so much to know about cheese, and these
14 interesting facts make me appreciate this delicious food even more.
Cheese facts
Americans and French consume all the cheese their countries
produce while countries like Ireland, Australia, the Netherlands and New
Zealand export most of the cheese produced.
The amount varies according to the type of animal's milk
you're using. This is because different types of milk have different amounts of
fatty solids.
The larger producer of the cheese in the world is USA.It produces over 10 billion pounds of cheese each year.
Roman houses used to have separate kitchens especially for
manufacturing cheese, called careale.
There are some very unique cheeses out there. White Stilton
Gold is infused with real gold, while Caciocavallo Podolico is made from the
milk of an Italian cow, Podolica, which only lactates in the months of May and
June.
The British Cheese Board discovered this in a 2005 study.
The tryptophan in the milk helps you fall asleep better and often causes vivid
dreaming.
The average Greek eats 60 pounds of cheese a year. 75% of
this is feta cheese.
This special cheese originates from Limburger, Germany and
is well known for its unpleasant odor. This smell is caused by the bacteria
brevibacterium linens. This is the same bacteria that causes human skin to have
a foul smell.
New York restaurant owner and chef Daniel Angerer crafted a
cheese made from his nursing wife's breast milk. He received a lot of criticism
for his novel invention.
The second most popular is Mozzarella.
It's also the most expensive milk in the world, at $500 a
pound.
Traditional European cheese makers eased their backs with
this nifty innovation. They found they could roll heavy cheeses instead of
carrying them.
Cheese-lovers can thank the Greek for this term.
"Tyros" means cheese and "philos" means love.
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Posted by: Charanjit Singh Cheema cjscheema@yahoo.com
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