Today is National Cheese Day

This Day in History: Today is National Cheese Day. Cheese is so old it is hard to figure out who came up with the idea first. It could be Egypt, Greece or Rome. In 2004 researchers determined that the Vieux Boulogne cheese is the stinkiest, even more pungent than the Epoisses de Bourgogne which is banned from public transportation throughout France. The holes in Swiss cheese is caused by the fermentation process. The most popular cheese dish in the US is macaroni and cheese. There are only 2 locations that provide all of the cheesecakes for the Cheesecake Factory, and one of them is in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

“A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.” Clifton Fadiman