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SP.287 Kitchen Chemistry Seminar at MIT -Syllabus for Spring 2009

Tuesday, April 7th - Cheese

Weekly assignment

• Take a look at the recipe
• Reading assignment from the text (On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee, Hardback version (copywrite 2004) pp 51-67
• Additional reading is at
• Why should I eat cheese?
• Want to buy cheese making supplies yourself?
• Want to buy cheese on-line?
• cheese-making short course
• still want more dairy courses, go here

Fun Sites

• Want to learn about Cabot Cheese (the Vermont cheese maker)?

Homework questions

1. What are some of the steps required to make cheese?
2. If you had to describe in chemical terms, what happens when you make cheese?
3. How does the process of making cheddar cheese differ from what we did?
4. What is the "blue" in blue cheese?
5. What are the health benefits of cheese?
6. Why did we not make cheddar cheese?

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