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