Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Cheese

the different kinds of cheese mentioned in Monty Python’s “Cheese Shop” sketch of November 30th 1972 (3rd season), starring John Cleese and Michael Palin. Writers were John Cleese and Graham Chapman.
Though quite well known, the rarest French cheese is said by many to be Ossau-Iraty, an unpasteurized ewe’s milk semi-soft made by Basques. Bleu de Termignon is also prestigious and very rare, said to come exclusively from eight or ten Alpine cows of the mahogany Tarentais breed owned by a woman in her nineties. In Northumberland, New Chevington cheese has been recently resurrected from its 19th century extinction. Liederkranz is extinct (though Schlosskranz Herz is a close approximation) and Single Gloucester nearly so. Most people assume Limburger, last on the list, is the most evil smelling; but actually beer-washed Vieux Boulogne from Normandy usually earns that distinction. Personally I’m waiting for cows to be genetically modified to produce milk of other mammals. Anteater, dormouse, or killer whale cheese might be just the thing.

Red Leicester
Tilsit
Caerphilly
Bel Paese
Red Windsor
Stilton
Emmenthal
Gruyère
Norwegian Jarlsburg
Liptauer
Lancashire
White Stilton
Danish Blue
Double Gloucester
Cheshire
Dorset Blue Vinney (though said to be nearly extinct)
Brie
Roquefort
Pont l’Évêque
Port Salut
Savoyard
Saint-Paulin
Carré de l’Est
Bresse Bleu
Boursin
Camembert
Gouda
Edam
Caithness
Smoked Austrian
Japanese Sage Derby* (though Sage Derby exists)
Wensleydale
Greek Feta
Gorgonzola
Parmesan
Mozzarella
Pipo Crème
Danish Fynbo
Czech sheep’s milk (Abertam)
Venezuelan Beaver Cheese* (no beavers native to Venezuela!)
Cheddar
Ilchester
Limburger

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