On Mar 13, 2010, at 6:46, Tanya Love wrote: > Gotta throw my hat into the ring here - when I was there for GFM, I couldn't > believe or comprehend the fact that you have ORANGE cheese in America! I > had > never seen orange cheese in my life! I just did not and still don't "get" > how cheese can turn orange when it is made from white milk! I guess the > explanation > below kind of answers the question for me...
Where ya from, Tanya? According to TheStraightDope.com, the practice of dying cheese orange originated in the U.K.: "It's orange because they dye it orange. You knew this, of course. The question is, Why orange as opposed to, say, a nice taupe? As near as cheese historians can make out, the practice originated many years ago in England. Milk contains varying amounts of beta-carotene, the yellow-orange stuff found in carrots and other vegetables. Milk from pasture-fed cows has higher beta-carotene levels in the spring and summer, when the cows are munching on fresh grass, and lower levels during the fall and winter, when they're eating hay. Thus the natural color of the cheese varies over the course of a year. So cheese makers began adding coloring agents." >From http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1284/why-is-cheddar-cheese-orange -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
