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Humans have been enjoying cheese for about as long as we have been domesticating milk-producing animals. Cheese making is a complicated art that balances microbes, environmental conditions, and technical processes to create a novel and delicious product. The following is a list of cheeses, classified according to hardness and ripening method.

soft cheesessemihard and semisoft cheeseshardvery hard
  • ripened with bacteria and enzymes
other
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