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Serious Cheese: Free E-Book from the USDA, 'Cheese Varieties and Descriptions'

In the years after WWII, the Bureau of the Dairy Industry (an early division of the USDA) commissioned expert George P. Sanders to scour the planet and document the characteristics and methods of production for a wide variety of cheeses. The purpose wasn't to provide recipes for cheesemakers but rather "so that consumers may be better able to recognize the various kinds by name." The Cheese Varieties and Descriptions handbook is a great overview for cheese lovers everywhere—even more than five decades after it's first publication in 1953. To be sure, methods of cheese production have not changed much in, well, centuries, which is why this book has aged so well. I first discovered this book while trolling Ebay for...

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