Green cheese
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Green cheese is a name applied to several varieties of cheese that are green in colour. The term was first used in English to mean fresh cheese, not thoroughly dried. The Oxford English Dictionary gives a reference from the year 1542 of the four sorts of cheese. The first sort is green cheese, it tells the reader, not green by reason of color but for its newness, for the whey is not half pressed out of it as yet.
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[edit] Varieties
Green cheese varieties include:
- Basiron Pesto a grass-coloured Dutch Gouda with added Pesto to give it a deep green colour.
- Cherni Vit - Green cheese from Bulgaria.
- Dolce verde (literally "sweet green"), an Italian cheese
- A Frisian cheese made from low-fat milk flavoured with parsley. It has been immortalised in the Frisian shibboleth "Bûter en brea en griene tsiis, hwa't dat net sizze kin is gjin oprjuchte Frys." ("Butter and bread and green cheese, who can't say that is no true Frisian.")[1]
- Green Thunder A variety of cheddar with herbs and chives, sealed in green wax, produce by the Snowdonia Cheese Company. The colour is a pale greenish-yellow.
- Sage Derby cheese
- Schabziger (Swiss green cheese)
- Vermont sage cheese
There are many other cheeses which are wholly or partly green in colour due to the addition of herbs.
The veins of most so-called blue cheeses, such as gorgonzola, maytag, roquefort, or stilton are in fact green.
[edit] Green cheese in popular culture
It is sometimes fancifully claimed that the Moon is made of green cheese.
[edit] Keynes' green cheese metaphor
John Maynard Keynes made a mysterious reference to green cheese in his General Theory:
"Unemployment develops, that is to say, because people want the moon; -- men cannot be employed when the object of desire (i.e. money) is something which cannot be produced and the demand for which cannot be readily choked off. There is no remedy but to persuade the public that green cheese is practically the same thing and to have a green cheese factory (i.e. a central bank) under public control."
Exactly what Keynes meant is still a topic for discussion in economics.[2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ The History of English: A Linguistic Introduction. Scott Shay, Wardja Press, 2008, ISBN 0615168175, 9780615168173
- ^ RECKONINGS; Green Cheese Rules, Paul Krugman
[edit] See also
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