When you talk with aficionados, it usually doesn’t take long for the conversation to veer away from curds, whey, and mold, and toward matters of life and death.

How a tangy, mellow cheese developed in the English countryside more than 200 years ago became loved around the world

Mountains of specialty cheese have been piling up in warehouses in recent months, as restaurants shuttered and other traditional markets closed down across America.  Like many other areas of the food industry, artisanal cheese has not been immune to the pandemic’s disruptions. But cheese associations say artisanal cheese producers have been hit especially hard, as they tend to be local family-run businesses—without the support of larger corporate entities—that depend on restaurants. A recent survey of almost 1,000 artisanal cheese sellers and producers, conducted by the American Cheese Society (ACS), found that nearly 70 percent were...

First came lab-grown meat; now comes lab-grown cheese.

The woman lives above a cheese shop in Germany and had placed signs warning of the stink.

From micro-stays in rustic off-grid cabins to alpine hiking in Piedmont and feasts of soft feta and local olives on small Greek islands, these are the 20 travel trends we predict for 2020

Your taste for cheese and yoghurt may never have been satisfied were it not for illicit microbial sex.

Apple has always produced high-end cheese graters. (Mmmmm, piave vecchio!)

Proposed tariffs currently available for public comment and expected to take effect this fall would dramatically raise prices on European foods imported to the United States, including most foreign cheeses. Many top-selling and prized styles of cheese, including Italian Parmigiano-Reggiano and Dutch Gouda, could become twice as expensive in American stores.

First stop burgers, next stop cheese.

Like other facets of the mushrooming plant-based foods industry, sales of vegan cheese have skyrocketed in recent years

Researchers exposed cheese to different genres of music for 24 hours a day over six months to find out that hip-hop might create the tastiest cheese.

Spaghetti and meatballs on the keto diet is a real thing!

Face it: The wedding cake is rarely the best part the reception. Sure, it's pretty to look at and the ceremonial cutting is fun and all, but if you're really hoping for it to take center stage, you should probably go for something a bit non-traditional like, say, a tiered version that's actually just a beautifully stacked series of cheese wheels. If that sort of dairy bonanza seems like a good fit for you and your crowd, may we direct you to this remarkable five-tier version currently available at Costco.

Move over, Camembert!

The residents of Sardinia go for casu marzu, a festering pile of rotten pecorino cheese teeming with squirming fly larvae.

Regardless of the various toppings and sauces you can get with your incredible pie, you truly haven't lived until you've had a pizza adorned with five different toppings. Four's fine, I suppose, but five's fantastic. Parmesan, cheddar, mozzarella and gorgonzola, but instead of a tomato sauce, the base was adorned with brie.

For thousands of years beneath Egypt’s desert sands a solidified whitish substance sat in a broken jar. Scientists now say it’s “probably the most ancient archaeological solid residue of cheese ever found.” Archaeologists came across the finding while cleaning the sands around a 19th-dynasty tomb at the vast Saqqara necropolis of the ancient city of Memphis. The tomb of Ptahmes, the mayor of ancient Memphis, was initially discovered in 1885 but had been swallowed by shifting sands until its rediscovery in 2010.

My other option is six slices of American cheese from Trader Joe’s.

Cheese lovers, rejoice. There's new evidence that the saturated fat found in cheese, milk, and other kinds of dairy is not tied to an increased risk of heart problems or death from any cause. The study is the latest in a series of papers that question the idea that eating fat is unhealthy.