by emmasdad » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:49 pm
In the last several months, I have been acquiring knowledge of cheeses. Cheese is one of the world's great foods, that pairs well with other foods and wine. I have had to resort to rather desperate measures to try some of the best cheeses, and this is all because the US Food and Drug Administration hates the French.
If I want to eat a young cheese that has been made from raw milk, I have to smuggle it in to the country, buy it on the black market here, or make it myself. See, according to the FDA, cheese made from raw milk that has not aged 60 days might kill me. So I can't buy it. I can buy as many cigarettes as I want, but I digress.
There are some very fine artisian cheeses made in this country, don't get me wrong, but cheesemakers are not allowed to sell an entire classification of cheese. You simply cannot get a real Camembert here without paying through the nose on the black market. Ditto Tomme de Savoie.
So, I am left to make a go of it making it myself. I have found a source for rennet and cultured bacteria, but we are simply in the dark age of government oppression here.
I thought that this might cheer you up.