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Cheese
Ranges from mild and milky to sharp, tangy, and pungent depending on style and age.
Lens analyzedCheese is milk that has been curdled, drained, and aged into a solid, ranging from soft and spreadable to hard and crumbly. In cooking it melts into sauces, browns on top of casseroles, and works as a salty, tangy note on its own. Different styles do different jobs: a hard aged wedge for grating, a soft fresh log for spreading.
Where it comes from
Cheesemaking took shape wherever people kept dairy animals and needed a way to make milk last longer than a few days. Nearly every dairy-based culture built its own cheese tradition, from alpine wheels aged for years to fresh curds eaten the same afternoon.
Buying it
Match the cheese to the job: a melting style for sandwiches, a hard grating style for finishing pasta, a soft style for spreading on bread. Check the sell-by date and avoid a cut edge that looks slimy or unusually dry.
Storing it
Wrap cheese in its original packaging or wax paper and keep it in the fridge, where a cut piece stays good for about two weeks.
Keeps about 14 days in the fridge.
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