Say Cheese!

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Food, History, Arts

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2015

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Cheese is the chameleon of the food world, as well as one of its greatest delights. Fresh and light or funky and earthy, creamy and melty or crystalline and crumbly—no other food offers such a variety of flavors and textures. But cheese is not just a treat for the palate: its discovery changed the course of Western civilization, and, today, cheese rinds are helping scientists conduct cutting-edge research into microbial ecology. In this episode of Gastropod, we investigate cheese in all stinking glory, from ancient Mesopotamia to medieval France, from the origins of cheese factories and Velveeta to the growing artisanal cheese movement in the U.S. Along the way, we search for the answer to a surprisingly complex question: what is cheese? Join us as we bust cheese myths, solve cheese mysteries, and put together the ultimate cheese plate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.9	The very first question we were to address was, how is cheese made?
0:50.1	Which I think the postdocs who put together the questions for us thought this was a straightforward question to begin with.
0:55.9	But we went round and round.
0:58.1	Because it turns out you can't explain how cheese is made without knowing what you mean by cheese.
1:04.1	You're listening to Gastropod.
1:05.7	The podcast where we wrestle with the really big questions.
1:09.1	Like, what is cheese anyway?
1:11.5	Well, not exactly.
1:12.7	It's more like, here we are, putting out an episode about cheese history and cheese science
1:16.9	and even how to put together the ultimate cheese plate.
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