Book-bot.com - read famous books online for free

The Complete Book of Cheese by Robert Carlton Brown
page 371 of 464 (79%)

Oveji Sir
_Yugoslavian Alpine_

Hard, mountain-sheep cheese of quality Cellar-ripened three months.
Weight six to ten pounds.

Oxfordshire
_England_

An obsolescent type, now only of literary interest because of Jonathan
Swift's little story around it, in the eighteenth century:
"An odd land of fellow, who when the cheese came upon the table,
pretended to faint; so somebody said, Pray take away the cheese.'

"'No,' said I, 'pray take away the fool. Said I well?'

"To this Colonel Arwit rejoins: 'Faith, my lord, you served the
coxcomb right enough; and therefore I wish we had a bit of your
lordship's Oxfordshire cheese.'"


P

Pabstett
_U.S.A_

The Pabst beer people got this out during Prohibition, and although
beer and cheese are brothers under their ferment, and Prohibition has
long since been done away with, the relation of the processed paste
DigitalOcean Referral Badge