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Someone please change the most consumed American cheese to read "fior di latte" and not mozzarella. Mozzarella is made with buffalo's milk, the one consumed by Americans is made by cow's milk, and is thus fior di latte. this is a common mistake and technically erroneous, so please change. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.133.143.171 ( talk) 10:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC).
Yes, that is the proper name of what Americans eat, but not what they call it -- they do call it "mozzarella". 69.87.199.176 00:42, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
"mozzarella di bufala campana made only from Campania's buffalo milk; mozzarella fior di latte made from cow's milk" See? IT's still called mozarella -- 13:31, 25 December 2006 193.108.134.112
I think Italians generally refer to the cow milk version as just plain Fior di latte (written also as fiordilatte) -- but only a native speaker could say for sure. 69.87.194.147 15:00, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Er, please, this is a prime area where some disambiguation is going to be required. If you are creating a link to Cheddar this is going to point to the town of Cheddar which is quite historically significant, home to the Cheddar caves, the interesting pre-Roman Cheddar Man, the bike-race which is the Cheddar Challenge, etc, etc, if you follow my drift... Cheddar cheese should really be referenced as Cheddar cheese. Then all that is required is a simple link in Cheddar itself. This applies to all cheese names where the cheese has a place name. This will become even more of an issue with the new improved PHP version of Wiki where disambiguation can be qualified by e.g. bracketing. sjc
According to the naming conventions, we should use the most common form of a word, for linking purposes etc. So adding the word cheese to every kind of cheese violates this convention. When I want to write about brie, I will call it brie and not brie cheese, for example. So the page about brie should be at Brie. Disambiguating can be done later, only as the need arises. I'll wait to change the links in case anyone wants to argue the point. - Tim
There may be situations when you will need to include the word cheese, for example when referring to Swiss Cheese. Though more specific names for it may exist, they are not as well known and would not be as obvious to many readers. For the most part, however, it should be beside the point, as individual cheeses ought to eventually have their own articles. -- phreyan
I've changed some spellings here which appeared to be phonetic guesses. I'm not sure I've picked them all up. I'm guessing 'Savoy aire' is really 'Savoyard' but I don't know that one so haven't changed it. - Gritchka Also, under British (now that they're grouped by nationality), I can name more cheeses but I have no idea whether they're cheddar-family (a concept new to me).
Spent some time reorganizing the list by nationality of origin. Note that this is ambiguous for some cheeses. I also added the word "cheese" to the end of each subject, though I know some people object. As most European cheeses are named after a town of origin, even "Brie" needs to be disambiguated. There are a couple of exceptions, though, and I suppose people will change them as they see fit (some might see 'Queso Blanco cheese' as a bit redundant, I suppose...) Also, I couldn't find any references on Google to a couple of the cheeses, so they're not categorized. I hope someone can determine where these cheeses came from. - D
Removed the following, because it didn't seem appropriate for the article:
"There is also a Monty_Python cheese store skit (which includes imaginary cheeses such as Venezuelan Beaver Cheese). See also Monty_Python's Flying Circus." Dachshund
Maveric149, when he/she edited the page, wrote "DO NOT start articles with quotes." Is this some sort of rule? Or is it just a personal preference? I thought the quote was actually pretty good myself, and there's a long history of starting articles and essays with a good quote; it's called an epigraph.
Not being sure if there acutally is some sort of rule about this (but doubting it), I didn't revert the edit. But I'd like to. Any imput? Exploding Boy 09:21, Feb 3, 2004
If anyone wants, I have 21 pictures of cheesemaking, covering three cheeses (a marbled cheddar, ricotta, and mascarpone) here. For a description of what I was doing when these pictures were taken, visit here. I took these when working to get approval from the health department to make cheese for sale at a farmers market - consider them to all be public domain. - Rei
I must admit I haven't learned nearly enough on the subject, but can we add material that addresses cultural stigmas against cheese? Such as in various east Asian cultures, where cheese is considered gross because it is seen only as rotted milk, and repulsive because it is considered bad-smelling (compare durian). I got the impression that such cultures have few native milk culturing traditions, and have not developed a collective acquired taste for cheese of any kind. - Gilgamesh 13:18, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
What about southern asian counties, specifically India. I don't know specifics, but since the cow is considered sacred in all forms, wouldn't cheese be an abomination[...your kidding me]? - ORBIT Dec 5, 2004
The Indian culture sees cows as sacred more because of the population density and the necessity to keep cows alive such that they provide milk. A popular form of cheese in India is paneer, but beyond that they do not have many varieties. Paneer is usually made with spinach to make the dish Saag Paneer that is popular at indian restaurants.
Milk and dairy have been central features of the diet in West, Southwest, South and Central Asia but NOT in East and Southeast Asia. The dividing line between milk/dairy and non-milk/dairy cultures is roughly that between Bangladesh and Myanmar (Burma). Although in the 20th century, many Southeast and East Asian cultures have adopted milk and cheese, there's all kinds of readily observeable evidence that this is something relatively new. In Korea, many people born before 1960 still consider milk, ice cream and cheese to be indigestible...for the simple reason that for them it IS indigestible. The same holds true more generally for the region from Korea, through the SE Asian archipelago, on to the border with the South Asian cultural region.
Looking at any cookbook, or better yet a culinary history of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Thai, Khmer, Malay and Myanmar cuisine will show that milk/dairy played little or no role in their food systems. Asking people from these cultures about what older family and friends say about dairy will also give evidence that milk and, especially, fermented cheese are NOT considered foods, properly speaking. Some East Asians will consider milk a medicine and will use it for the laxitive or purgative properties it has **for them**.
As mentioned elsewhere here, the ability to digest lactose is not universal. In many places, people have insufficient enzymes to digest milk, except in the smallest servings. Many people, if they do not drink cow's milk continuously from weaning, lose the ability to digest lactose-rich products. Since many Southeast and East Asian people now drink cow's milk from infancy, the percentage of those who are able to digest milk/dairy and, therefore, consider it a food, is increasing.
In South Asia, broadly, the principal form of milk/dairy has been that from bovines: cows and buffaloes. Pakistan and Afghanistan mark, more or less, the frontier where bovine products yield to ovine (sheep) and caprine (goat) milk/dairy products. Central Asia also has groups which have favored equine (horse) milk/dairy products. Tibetans have used yak (probably a bovine?) products.
More broadly, fermented products seem, in my experience, to be one of the food groups that most resists translation. No doubt this is because fermenting is, in fact, a kind of rotting. For a product with which we're familiar, we can recognize the difference between spoilage (bad rotting, which changes food into garbage) and fermenting (good rotting, which changes raw food into prepared delicacies). Japanese nato (soy beans), Filipino patis (fish sauce), European cheese (milk), Korean kimchi (cabbage), Greek olives, Central Asian koumis (mare's milk) are just some of the fermented products that often produce a yuck-reaction for those from other cultures.
This is good information to learn about, and should be in the article. And what about modern China and southeast Asia? I get the impression that cheese is still considered disgusting in places such as Malaysia. - Gilgamesh 10:05, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
There are over 400 types of cheese. Cheese is a solid food made from
Stylistically, should the first sentence define the subject of the article? The statement of fact that there are over 400 types of cheese is interesting, but shouldn’t the second sentence here be the first?
Cheese is a great thing that benifits us every day. Cheese is the most wonderful and cheesey matter on the planet! Cheese is my favorite thing the world has seen, but contrary to other beleifs, the moon is NOT made of cheese. Now let's all do the cheese dance! GO CHEESE! THIS IS OFFICALLY CHEESY!
"Wow Cheese" was Posted by Burlap
So, we have "Cheese Trivia", "Cheese expressions and quotes" and "Cheese Humor" but no historical or cultural background.
Yes, whatever, cheese is funny, but wouldn't some content be nice?
Can someone comment why some cheese has holes in it? -- NeoThe1 00:07, May 1, 2005 (UTC)
honestly, this is not the cheese page, this is talk:cheese, so stop saying the history needs to be covered here, lol
Cheese has holes in it because the bacteria in it produces carbon dioxcide and that creates lil bubbles of air that result in holes in some cultrued cheeses. Either that or cheese pissed off some gansters from the 1920s. (why does the edit button refer to the article below it--shouldn't it edit the one that it comes after?)
Perhaps the users maintaining this page would like to assist with salvaging Danish Blue cheese. The page has been the subject of some less-than-wiki antics, and needs help. I see where there is on-going discussion of how to handle specific types of cheese; the outcome here should be applied there. I will add the cheese category tag and a See Also back here to this article. -- Mddake 06:30, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
I deleted this from the trivia section:
Hopefully a non-controversial edit; there are a lot of foods which have cheese as one of their main ingredients and this one doesn't need a special callout, since it isn't inheritly more interesting than fondue or quesadillas or cannolis. Plus, the etymological information given there is mostly wrong, according to the Welsh rabbit page. Bunchofgrapes 23:12, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
Can anyone cite a source for this? Or at least claim to have heard the expression used? Googling for it, and eliminating pages that clearly either mirrored or copied this page or wikiquotes, I was left with maybe two or three pages, all of which could have gotten it from here anyway. Bunchofgrapes 23:24, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
Could someone clarify this, please?
The kosher prohibition against consuming dairy and meat in the same meal does not apply to cheese itself, even when made with animal-based rennet. (The cheese is still considered a dairy food, of course, and can't be eaten with other meats.)
Is it just me or do those two sentences seemingly contradict each other? If the second sentence is accurate, what exactly does the first sentence mean?
This article doesn't have very much about the way cheese is made... I came across Cheesemaker which I think should be deleted, but perhaps some of its content could be used here. -- BigBlueFish 20:19, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
Not many people may know that cheese, like chocolate, has certain specific addictive properties. Casomorphin is the chemical in cheese that is responsible for this and it has opiate like effect. I'm not if this has a direct opiate effect or if it needs to be broken down into other substances first, but some quick research can clear this up. Nathan J. Yoder 09:39, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
That's interesting, I had not read the studies on it, I was just going based on what some doctor interviewed for Super Size Me had said. I did some quick searching and that one study was the only one I could find specifically on the addictive properties, but other studies like this one appear to show some kind of response. I'll search in pubmed and in other places to see if I can find information other than from the anti-mil propraganda places. Nathan J. Yoder 13:14, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
I've heard about vegan cheeses recently; how do these work? Is there an article that talks about them? -- Creidieki 04:37, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
I've been in chinese restaurants and been served soy milk cheese as a sort of dip/sauce for a dish we were having, was... different, but would come under the heading of a vegan cheese i suppose (although was served with meat)
I've protected this article as it's on the main page today and has been getting lots of vandalism. I suggest that we unprotect it as soon as it's off the main page. -- Gareth Hughes 12:59, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
I respect the views you have on this subject and personally you open my mind to think and look at things a lot deeper.
Thank You Your Truly Kerry-Ann Rowe
Could we get a source on the claim that this form is the most commonly consumed in the U.S.? Rmhermen 14:35, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
I googled for the exact de Gaulle quote on the Cheese and the French and found that the number of cheeses is quoted as being either 70, 246, 270, 300, 350, 365, 400 or 600. Our article says 300.
Does anyone knows which is the real figure? bogdan | Talk 15:27, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
Page should be considered locked for editing till it's off the front page as vandalims has got sky high on the page. Oyvind 17:41, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
I don't think there is an appropriate place for it in the main article (others may disagree), but is it worth mentioning things like the Wallace and Gromit films, where the main characters have a fondness for cheese? (I specifically picked these characters because the first film helped resurrect the only dairy in Wensleydale making the cheese bearing the same name, and the recent feature film seems to be doing the same thing for Stinking Bishop. [3]
The Wikipedia manual of style allows either form; it's supposed to be consistent within an article, and you aren't supposed to change them once they are there. I was the first to introduce any dates to this article, as far as I know. I've always gone for BCE/CE, but I see I missed one earlier (now fixed). Please leave it in BCE/CE form. Thanks. — Bunchofgrapes ( talk) 21:11, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
I've introduced a new template (Template:Cheese) to use in individual cheese articles. It is imported from the French wiki. An example of its use can be found at Gouda or Munster cheese. Could this type of thing be extended to all cheese type articles? -- Bob 23:48, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
Does the properties of the milk fats in human milk allow the fermentation of cheese?
I just removed "Cheese is also sometimes used as a slang term for gossip, deriving from the Spanish word "chisme", meaning "gossip" from the article; I'm not sure when that got in there. There's no question chisme is Spanish for "gossip", but I'm not finding any good sources stating that "cheese" is used in that manner, nor that it was corrupted from chisme. — Bunchofgrapes ( talk) 20:36, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Something that's been bothering me for a short time: is there anything on the web about cheese made from human milk, and is it worth mentioning in the article? I read on the Half-Bakery that there was such a link, but the author of the comment was unable to find it. ThomasWinwood 05:12, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Cheese is being listed as a candidate in Portal:India/Selected article removal candidates. Sorry guys from other countries, it was probably a mistake to have included the article in Portal:India/Selected articles, as it is not related to India. Regards.-- Dwaipayan ( talk) 10:30, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
What wine goes with Government cheese? Are their varieties of Government cheese?
Wanted to add under Cheese in language:
A lover of cheese is known as a turophile.
This is a fine compromise. I had thought about doing this myself since cows obviously are the trademark bearers of milk, but I was reluctant not to mess around with the content. Good job. :) — Eternal Equinox | talk 14:16, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
During a trip to Frankenmuth, Michigan I came across Chocolate Mint cheese. Looking on this wiki article I don't see anything about something like this, or how unusual it is, though when doing a google search on 'chocolate flavored cheese' over 6 million results are displayed. I'm not sure if this should be included into the cheese article, or if it even merits it, but I personally would be interested in learning more about it. From what I understand there are a lot of 'unusual' flavors out there so maybe a small section for those would be appropriate perhaps for those of you who have more information on this kind of thing than I do. -- ImmortalGoddezz 03:52, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
What is the use of the Cheeze redirect? I thought we weren't supposed to have redirects from misspellings. Is cheeze some British variant or some nonsense?-- Josh Rocchio 15:48, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
One of the first things I wanted to know was whence the name, but it appears way down the page. I don't want to edit as I'm not a wiki 'foodie' but could there perhaps be summary info at the top of the article incl. eg origin of the name. I assume there'd have to be a common format for all the food articles though... Hakluyt bean 20:31, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
I think that would be great. The first half of the cheese in language section is pretty good. A hint of it at the beginning might do it justice. Hakluyt bean 20:16, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
This article is written from a completely non-neutral perspective. I demand that all viewpoints be represented equally. 71.11.241.105 23:31, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Why is there no mention of Casu marzu cheese? For those that don't know what it is, it is a form of Pecorino Sardo filled with maggots. By the way, those thinking of commenting it's fictional nature should save time and not do it because it is in-fact real. - 02:32, 11 August 2006 (UTC)~~
OK. - 20:39, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
The categorization of cheese in the article seems to me right now very limited, and parochial (as it just sticks to the common american categorization of cheese). I just tried to point out the main principles of classification that are used, alone or mixed, in the world, to categorize cheese. The French one, for instance, is complex and is a mix of three of these basic types [5] [6] (official web site of french milk producers union) : 1) soft dough with washed rind (Munster, e.g); 2) soft dough with mold rind (camembert, for instance); 3) pressed and unheated dough (Cheddar, Cantal); 4) pressed and heated dough (Emmental, Beaufort,what is called in the US "swiss like" cheeses), 5) mold dough (pâte persillée) (Roquefort, "blue" cheeses); 6) fresh cheese; 7) goat's milk cheese and 8) processed cheese. This classification is close to official. What is more, 3) and 4) kind of cheese are commonly classified according to their affinage (old Cantal vs young Cantal). A classification of this kind is sometimes used in Italy [7]. I find this categorization extremely accurate, as it is based mainly on the basic methods of cheese making. But I'm certainly biased !
The categorization that I proposed tries not to be parochial, and to sum up this great diversity of classifications. It really goes to the basic principles of the categorizations used. You can find it on these (italian) sites [8], [9]. Gedefr 20:21, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
My mistake. I overlooked your copyedit. Gedefr 22:32, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
France exported $2,658,441 of cheese in 2004? Im not a cheese expert, nor do I care to be, but I know that that figure is wrong. Surely it must be in 000's of $, not $.
Nope, im just a bum who finds wildly innacurate statistics annoying.
Why in the world is this article locked against changes by the newbies (I am not one, if it matters). I mean, locks are usually placed on articles succeptable to vandalism and extreme points of view like abortion and race. Is there a secret group of cheese-haters out there somewhere? If so, I've never met any. (Yumm!) Sys Hax 09:05, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
It is weird that this article has no mention of Protected designation of origin (PDO/POD), protected geographical indication (PGI) and Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG). I can't add such because the article is locked. 69.87.199.176 00:40, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Please change the first sentence from
Water buffalo are important to the history of cheese and current production; authentic mozzarella is still made from their milk in Italy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.87.194.147 ( talk) 15:30, 25 December 2006 (UTC).
The article seems to use some cheese tasting terms, but not discuss the subject as such. It might be good to at least offer a good link to somewhere for to learn about the terms used to discuss cheese tasting? 69.87.204.169 02:43, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
"It should also perhaps be noted that under certain scientifically controlled dietery studies, people whose diets which particularly consisted of the high intake of dairy foods had shown that obesity had prevailed at a higher rate than of those persons whose diets consisted of only vegetable based fats." This sentence has a spelling mistake, and needs to be re-written in plainer English. 69.87.204.169 02:43, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
I have now twice reverted the addition of a section called "Celebrity cheesemakers", which states that "Blur bassist Alex James has recently confirmed [8] that he has been focusing on cheese making ahead of a possible band reunion." I do not believe this nugget of trivia rises anywhere near the level of wanting to be included in this article. Thoughts? — Bunchofgrapes ( talk) 16:02, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
-- I believe that the addition of this section represents a valid and necessary infusion of popular culture into the much-maligned art of cheese-making. The deliberate exclusion of this information, whilst undoubtedly well-intentioned, could equally be construed as an attempt to downplay this popular hobby and keep it sidelined and regarded as a fringe activity. Cheese-making is undergoing something of a rennaissance in recent years, and to ignore this growing trend is to undermine one of the core values of Wikipedia: its ability quickly to respond to ever-changing nuances of meaning and culture. As a supporter of the British Cheese Board, I find the interest of an iconic British celebrity figure such as Alex James to be a breath of fresh air in what can, at time, be a staid and misunderstood world. I implore you: please reinstate this entry so that young potential cheesemakers can see that cheesemaking can indeed be both 'cool' and fantastically engrossing. Adam Channell 208.1.253.163 12:59, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Interesting... Inever heard of celebrity cheesemakers, so maybe we SHOULD add it on here... so others can learn about them
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