What Lives In Cheese?

What makes cheese so delicious? It's the bacteria, fungi, mites, and maggots living in it, of course!
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The Wolfe Lab at Tufts University
https://sites.tufts.edu/wolfelab/

The Dutton Lab (note: this lab is moving from Harvard to UCSD):
https://sites.google.com/site/theduttonlab/

Gordon Ramsay’s F Word on casu marzu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ_-JzM-YQg

Credits

Host, Writer, Animator, Editor
Anna Rothschild

DP, Sound
Kristen Clark

Musette Parisienne
Music Provided by APM

Many thanks to Dr. Benjamin Wolfe and Andrew Janjigian

Images and Video

Images of cheese microbes and video of cheese mite
Courtesy Benjamin Wolfe

105° + rennet = Miss Muffet’s Fantasy
Flickr/Baron Chandler

Curds and whey
Flickr/Cecilia

Delicious Cheese
Flickr/Chris Buecheler

iPhone Background – Cheese Please
Flickr/Patrick Hoesly

NCI swiss cheese
Wikimedia Commons/National Cancer Institute

Limburger-Käse
Wikimedia Commons/MarkusHagenlocher

Roquefort Coulet
Flickr/Sarah Nichols

Coulommiers lait cru
Wikimedia Commons/Myrabella

Mimolette3
Wikimedia Commons/Chris Waits

Casu Marzi cheese
Wikimedia Commons/Shardan

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