WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration moved on Tuesday to tamp down fears among artisanal cheesemakers that it was poised to ban the practice of aging cheese on wooden boards.

In natural cheese making, life begins at 40. At least that’s the temperature at which the aging process can occur. However, as with winemaking, if temperature conditions aren’t just right, aging will ...

American cheese has a funny reputation. People love to mock it for being processed, plasticky, or not quite respectable enough to sit at the grown-up cheese table. Then those same people make a burger ...