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Fred McGriff

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Listen, I want to keep this off the record. Ok? Good. Permission to speak freely? Ok. Stilton is not the best cheese. A sharp cheddar or Swiss cheese is the best cheese. Actually, the best cheese is Gruyere. Fuck stilton. You don't tell anyone back at the station about this, ok?

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I've done some freelance work for Dairy Foods Magazine...

 

actually wrote an article or two about Stilton in a history of blue cheeses cover spread. One of the most interesting aspects of this cheese is its vague, even legendary beginnings.

 

Supposedly, and this is totally wrong, Stilton is an english cheese. How then, would we explain its distinct taste which differs so heavily from other blue cheeses?

 

I have a friend, a noted scholar and part time lecturer at Oxford, who believes that it was transported overland in giant wheels made of wood, possibly from as far away as India or China. Saint Guillame Du Pourveau is said to have witnessed one of these "Heavenly Wheels" moving under cover of darkness in the early eleventh century C.E. Upon seeing the wheel he exclaimed "Sacred Blue" or, as we now know the phrase, "Sacre Bleu!" - Stilton runs deep in French culture.

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Oh no! That would be dreadful!

 

It's a long process and I don't expect you to understand it nor am I going to bother explaining it all, but blue cheese is cave aged from milk that is applied directly to stalactites. The milk itself is generally from an elderly goat...blue cheese as it were is actually a goat cheese, not something many people know...

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