Ep 8 – Cruising the Blues

Blue cheese is one of the more mysterious and divisive types of cheeses. There are many myths about it, and often people have had one unpleasant blue and are never tempted to try another. But blues can have a wide range of intensity, different textures, and secondary flavors ranging from apple and pear to nuts and cedar. In this episode we start exploring this very diverse group of cheeses.

Resources

Blue Cheese Flight – Tasting Notes

How Gorgonzola is made

Blue cheese consumption in Iron Age Hallstatt

More science of P. Roqueforti

List of blue cheeses

Image and blues music from Wikimedia. Austrian music from Internet Archive.

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