Cheese is a relatively simple food. It's made with milk, enzymes – these are proteins that can chop up other proteins – bacterial cultures and salt. Lots of complex chemistry goes into the ...

Even a small Jersey cow like our Maple can make a lot of milk in a day – more than a family with three children at home can drink. How much more depends on many variables, like what she is eating ...

No one knows when cheese-making started, but it's believed to be linked to the taming of domestic animals 10,000 years before Christ. The Bible tells that when David escaped across the Jordan River, ...

A delicacy is more than the sum of its parts. Take mozzarella: Water buffalo milk, rennet, whey, and microbes combine together to create a plump, white luxurious pillow of deliciousness. Recently, ...

The Catalysts for Science Policy organization plans to introduce a bill aimed at adopting Lactococcus lactis as Wisconsin’s state microbe. Affiliated with the University of Wisconsin, CaSP’s goal is ...