The Oxford Companion to Cheese
Dr. Catherine Donnelly (Professor, Professor, University of Vermont), Mateo Kehler (Founder, Founder, Jasper Hill Farm)

The Oxford Companion to Cheese
Dr. Catherine Donnelly (Professor, Professor, University of Vermont), Mateo Kehler (Founder, Founder, Jasper Hill Farm)
The discovery of cheese is a narrative at least 8,000 years old, dating back to the Neolithic era. Yet, after all of these thousands of years we are still finding new ways to combine the same four basic ingredients - milk, bacteria, salt, and enzymes - into new and exciting products with vastly different shapes, sizes, and colors, and equally complex and varied tastes, textures, and, yes, aromas. In fact, after a long period of industrialized, processed, and standardized cheese, cheesemakers, cheesemongers, affineurs, and most of all consumers are rediscovering the endless variety of cheeses across cultures.
The Oxford Companion to Cheese is the first major reference work dedicated to cheese, containing 855 A-Z entries on cheese history, culture, science, and production. From cottage cheese to Camembert, from Gorgonzola to Gruyere, there are entries on all of the major cheese varieties globally, but also many cheeses that are not well known outside of their region of production. The conc
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