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Cheese, Glorious Blue Cheese

10 min readJan 1, 2024

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Image by PDPhotos from Pixabay

Buffalo wings with blue cheese have become one of the most popular bar food treats. In my opinion, you can keep the wings; I’ll simply dive into the bowl of blue cheese dip.

I don’t know if the advent of this brewpub nosh had an impact on the popularity of blue cheese, but it was certainly my introduction to the funky fromage. Until then, I had assumed that blue (or bleu) cheese was only favored by those who dined on fancy French cuisine.

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Danish Blue (Source: PDPhotos from Pixabay)

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be over sophisticated. Yet it remains; cheese, milk’s leap toward immortality.

— Clifton Fadiman an American writer, editor and New Yorker book reviewer

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Gorgonzola (Source: PDPhotos from Pixabay)

Are the French Responsible?

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Linda Lum
Linda Lum

Written by Linda Lum⁠

I write about culinary history and the way foods connect us, blending history, personal narrative, and story telling—because food is never just food.

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