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The Food Programme

The World's Most Popular Cheese: The Story of Cheddar

The Food Programme

BBC

Food, Arts

4.4977 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dan Saladino reports on the past, present and future of what's thought to be the world's most widely produced and consumed cheese, Cheddar. Dan also meets producers who are trying to discover what cheddar might have tasted like more than a century ago, using some of the earliest known Cheddar recipes.

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.

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0:38.0

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0:40.0

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0:41.0

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0:46.3

addition.

0:47.3

There was nowhere off I could really start this program. It's a sleepy small village.

0:59.0

I can see a fish and ship shop. I can see a fish and ship shop I can see a tea room a cabab shop but importantly there is still

1:10.0

cheese being made here and when you think of food and drink names that are famous throughout the world,

1:17.5

well you know you've got Coca-Cola but you can't go to a place called Coca-Cola. This village has given the name to the most produced,

1:27.2

eaten and studied cheese in the world. Not many villages can say that. Not many foods can make that claim.

1:35.0

Cheddar can.

1:39.0

In this program I thought I was going to pose a very simple question.

1:42.0

What is Cheddar? Turns out it's far more complicated

1:46.7

than I ever imagined. There's such a massive variety.

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