My focus on cheese started as a joke when I asked my wife what C food I should blog about this week. Her answer – cheese. Everything is better with cheese on it. This is true for all who live in our household at present; we are all cheese lovers. Growing up, we rarely had cheese in the house. My mother kept Kosher, at least for a significant part of our lives, and so we never served dairy and meat at the same meal. Periodically, she would offer up a cheese tray and remind us that even King David was served cheese. She was, of course, careful to ensure that all the cheese she put on the tray was marked as Kosher. As a result there were numerous types of cheeses we were never exposed to as they are made with or contain non-dairy ingredients such as rennet. This not only applied to cheese, but to anything which you could find in the dairy section such as yogurt or butter.
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