Chapter 4. Oh Geez, What is Cheddar Anyway?

I couldn’t include pictures in Cheddar: A Journey to the Heart of America’s Most Iconic Cheese so I am going to annotate the book here on my website.  That sounds like fun, right?  As you’d expect, this chapter has a lot of technical cheese stuff.

Drain that way!

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Slab it out!

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Check out that cheddaring!

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From the New York State Museum of Cheese:

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Six seconds of milling:

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The Widmer Cheese factory tour is great for seeing how cheddar is made: