Blue cheese, or bleu cheese, is any cheese made with the addition of cultures of edible molds, which create blue-green spots or veins through the cheese. Blue cheeses vary in flavor from mild to stron
Blue goat cheese
Bleu de Gex, a creamy, semi-soft blue cheese made in the Jura region of France
Cambozola, a German variety of blue cheese
Characteristic blue veins in blue cheese
Stilton is an English cheese, produced in two varieties: blue, which has Penicillium roqueforti added to generate a characteristic smell and taste, and white, which does not. Both have been granted th
Blue cheese
…the oldest known blue cheeses, having been created around AD 879, though it is said that it did not contain blue veins until around the 11th century. Stilton is a relatively new addition, becoming popular sometime in the early 1700s. Many varieties of blue cheese originated subsequently, such as the 20th…
The Bell Inn at Stilton, Cambridgeshire, in 2005
The Tuxford & Tebbutt creamery in Melton Mowbray
Slice of a Blue Stilton, viewed from the rind side, showing inoculation holes