Blue Cheeses

Blue cheese is commonly thought to have been invented by accident. The story goes that a hapless cheesemaker abandoned a half-eaten hunk of rye in the cheese caves. He returned several weeks later to find that the mold covering the bread had transplanted itself onto the cheese. The daring pioneer tasted the cheese instead of tossing it, and blue cheese was born. Today, Roquefort blue from Aveyron is still inoculated with the spores of moldy rye bread.

The distinctive "vein" pattern of blue cheese is a byproduct of the production method. Since the blue mold - a type of fungus - requires oxygen to flourish, whole cheeses are pierced with needles to allow air to penetrate deeply into the cheese to allow for internal as well as external "blue-ing."

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Gamonedo

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Naturally bluing blue with a flavor that comes from being gently smoked over applewood for 12 days. (Read more...)

Country Spain

Milk Type Mixed

Cheese Type Blue

Wine Zinfandel

Item # 10236

$25.50 per lb

Shropshire Blue

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Shropshire Blue is a cow's milk blue cheese from the United Kingdom and technically a cross between Stilton and Cheshire. The distinctive orange color comes from the addition of annatto, a natural food coloring. (Read more...)

Country Great Britain

Milk Type Cow

Cheese Type Blue

Wine Sauternes

Item # 10497