B. Say Cheese!
A cheese is a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk, often seasoned and aged. (American Heritage Dictionary)
Did you know that…
.1 … Havarti cheese is a semi-soft Danish cow’s milk cheese named after the experimental farm on which it was first made by Hanne Nielsen in the mid 1800s?
.2 … ancient Greek Olympic athletes were trained on a diet consisting mostly of cheese?
.3 … Sirene cheese together with yoghurt is national food in Bulgaria?
.4 … Turophiliac is a person who loves cheese?
.5 … Dry Jack cheese has a natural rind that is hand-rubbed with oil, cocoa, and pepper?
.6 … monks in medieval monasteries originally created Muenster cheese?
.7 … Feta cheese is aged in a brine solution, which is a strong combination of water and salt used to preserve foods?
.8 … carbon dioxide is responsible for creating the holes found in Swiss cheese?
.9 … Sakura cheese from Japan has the rare distinction from winning a gold medal (soft cheese category) at the Mountain Cheese Olympics in Appenzell, Switzerland, which normally favors Swiss, Italian, and French cheeses?
.10 … toasted cheese is called Welsh rabbit or rarebit, but has nothing to do with Wales and probably not with rabbits either?
