Cheese is a relatively simple food. It's made with milk, enzymes – these are proteins that can chop up other proteins – bacterial cultures and salt. Lots of complex chemistry goes into the ...

When Isa Chandra Moskowitz became a vegan, most of the vegan cheese she was able to find on store shelves was “really processed, really stiff, and not melty,” she says. “I just tasted melted crayons.” ...

It’s around 10 in the morning when Francisco Ochoa walks into the cheesemaking room at Don Froylan Creamery, where cheese curds are forming in a vat machine. “My favorite thing to do is make cheese,” ...

Most people hear the phrase "American cheese" and think either of the soft, yellow, highly processed slices of Kraft Singles or a few other processed cheese products. Either way, that phrase, which ...

A classic part of the pizza-making process is layering on the cheese—grabbing handfuls of shredded mozzarella to sprinkle on top of the tomato sauce, enough so that the shreds will melt and spread ...

Jaya Saxena is a former correspondent at Eater, and the series editor of Best American Food and Travel Writing. She explores wide ranging topics like labor, identity, and food culture. The joke that ...