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Summary: Blue cheese, or bleu cheese, is a cow's milk that is usually introduced with penicillin in the beginning, but sometimes it comes farther along in the aging process. Learn about the strong, tangy and pungent aroma of blue cheese with help from the manager of a cheese shop in this free video on blue cheese.
Brandon Fuson is the general manager of Corrieri's Formaggeria in Nashville, Tenn., which offers a wide array of artisan and international cheeses, meats and gourmet foods.read more
"How you doing? Today we are going to talk about Blue Cheese. Where it comes from, how it is made, and all things that are the process of making Blue Cheese. We will start off basically, why is Blue Cheese Blue Cheese? Blue Cheese is a is a cow's milk usually introduced with penicillin which is also known as penicillin in an everyday language. Most Blue Cheeses are are use penicillin as during the process at the beginning but sometimes some of the cheeses are already introduced with the penicillin later on during the aging process. Like for example this Gorgonzola here, a six month cow's milk cheese from Italy, this one was actually injected with penicillin or penicillin as you want to say, during about three months after its aging process. What they do is just they take needles, inject it into it and it causes that greeny bluish veins you see inside of it. Because of this you usually get a very strong, very tangy and a very pungent aroma from the from the cheese. Also known about Blue Cheeses in French you also see spelled not B-L-E-U but for some weird reason it is actually spelled B-L-U-E in our everyday language. French introduced the Blue as a big concept of a helping healthier minds especially with little children. Just like penicillin it does help in a healthier way of life. Given the look of it and the taste is not that great but overall Blue Cheese is probably one of the healthiest cheeses out there on the market."