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Dec 8, 2020
Rescue dried-out cheese with this simple trick
Queso en aceite—cheese marinated in oil—breathes new life into old curds.
Dec 1, 2020
When specialty cheesemaking becomes a quarantine pastime
Parisian architect Antoine Ricardou did not plan to tend cheese. Then COVID-19 happened.
Oct 2, 2020
The scientific way to make perfectly creamy fondue
A food scientist explains the do’s and don’ts of the ultimate melted cheese sauce.
Jun 4, 2020
Almost everything you know about cheese is wrong
Shredded cheese doesn’t melt as well and other fascinating facts about fromage.
Jun 4, 2020
Meet the hard-working microbes that make your favorite cheeses
We have tiny living things to thank for all that flavor.
May 20, 2020
Why baseball players ‘bone’ their bats
Rubbing down wooden bats with cow femurs is a sort-of-scientific superstition.
Sep 26, 2018
The weirdest things we learned this week: holes in people (and cows), illegal cheese, and the world’s worst dairy disaster
Our editors scrounged up some truly bizarre facts.
