[Sharon C.]

I have researched some websites on these cheeses and I never see any bread mentioned in their making, even on step by step do-it-yourself websites. Why is it widely believed these cheeses contain bread?

Thanks!

[eleep]

Sometimes the mold culture used to make them is grown on bread -- although it can often be grown on other mediums as well. However, I read somewhere that one of the really good british Bleu's -- Stilton? -- is produced with bread-grown mold culture, but that there's about 1 part of mold per million parts of the rest of the cheese -- and the mold doesn't necessarily contain _any_ of the medium it was grown on.

Take that for what it's worth -- I've had bleu cheese at least once and had no problem with it, but I can't remember what kind it was.