Cheeses are fraught with many secrets, most of which are already known to you. These facts will enhance your understanding of common and familiar product, somewhere will surprise and maybe disappoint.
King cheese recognized around the world as Parmesan. It is an Italian cheese which is cooked and matured exclusively in the territory of the state in the provinces of Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Padua and Bologna. The older the Cheese, the tastier and more expensive it is.
1. Recipe of Parmesan cheese is about 900 years old, and during that time he has not changed. It includes milk, salt, water and a long, long time of aging.
2. Italian banks have cell syrophenicia. Parmesan is so expensive that they are holding it like the most precious jewels. Bank robbers don’t ignore the expensive cheeses, because a very liquid product even on the black market.
3. Despite the popularity of Parmesan, it is not the most expensive cheese. This place is reserved for Pule donkey cheese from Serbia. Its price is one thousand dollars per kilogram. To cook a kilogram of this cheese, you need 25 liters of milk of Balkan donkeys. Donkey gives milk for 3 hours and only at certain times of the year, that is why cheese is made in a modest party.
4. People who collect cheese labels are called people with tyrosemiophilia.
In Sicily they produce cheese “KAFU the Martz”, which is kept together with larvae of flies, which accelerate the process of fat breakdown and make the cheese very soft. While tasting the larvae are not removed and put on special glasses so they don’t leap to the eye.
5. There is a cheese with bacteria of the human foot, belly button and underarms. It is intended not for food but was created as a reminder of the careless attitude of people to microorganisms living in the us.
6. Brie cheese “lives” only 84 days, 4 hours and 23 minutes. After this period, the cheese should not be consumed it can be poisonous.
7. While festival of wine and cheese in London David Bradley made a cheese sculpture of Beyonce. For the production of the statue he took 20 kg of cheese varieties of the Cheddar, the creature was nicknamed “bree-the Jons”.
French cheesemaker Andre Simon wrote a treatise “On the cheese case”, where he spoke about peculiarities of preparation 839 varieties of cheese. Cheesemaker has been writing the book for 17 years.
8. It is said that Salvador Dali painted a picture of “Fluid clock” after tasting the Camembert cheese, inspired by its fluid consistency.
9. In Gloucestershire every year there is a competition for skating cheese from Cooper’s hill. Gloucester cheese at the team launch from the mountain and ran after him, hoping to catch and win contest. The average speed of cheese is 110 kilometers per hour. The competition is traumatic and constantly being criticized by the world community – people getting hurt trying head over heels to catch their prey.
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