blue cheese

noun

a rich cheese in which the internal mold manifests itself in blue veins: made in France especially from sheep's milk and elsewhere also from cow's milk and goat's milk.

blue cheese

noun

Also called (Austral and NZ): blue vein.��cheese containing a blue mould, esp Stilton, Roquefort, or Danish blue

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Word History and Origins

Origin of blue cheese¹

First recorded in 1920–25

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The famous blue cheese it gave its name to is known throughout the world, but despite years of local protests, the Cambridgeshire village of Stilton is still not allowed to produce it.

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Try blue cheese and hot sauce for a wing-night hollandaise that somehow works — as long as you keep the proportions delicate, not bulldozed.

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The Fried Chicken Club salad doesn’t mess around either — crispy fried chicken crackling with every bite, tangled in mixed greens, smoky shards of bacon and bold blue cheese crumbles.

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When I eat wings, I often find myself more excited about the crisp carrots, celery and blue cheese than the wings themselves.

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I added a scoop of pistachios — another Italian specialty — and tossed arugula and a wedge of blue cheese into my bag.

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