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Does Anyone Really Eat the Rind of a Brie?
But, like the emperor, you can certainly eat the rind, although we don't know whether you'll agree that it is the best part. The rind or skin is formed naturally by molds and bacteria on the surface of the cheese, which start out as fine white hairs and grow to what the French call poil de chat, or cat fur. The fur is rubbed off, and underneath is a thin rind encasing the nearly fluid interior of the cheese. Some people find the skin rather bland and don't eat it. Bries (and all commercially produced cheeses in this country) are made from pasteurized milk, which may account for the rather uninspired taste of the rind. It would be a huge mess and enormous waste of time to remove the rind from a wheel of brie before baking it. And for our readers in remotest China and the mountains of Paraguay (and we have several!), the questioner is referring to Martha Stewart, whose cooking/gardening/decorating/homemaking television programs, magazines, newspaper articles, radio broadcasts, and Web site reach nearly everywhere in the world (from the wilds of West Virginia to the halls of Congress). Here is Ms. Stewart's recipe for Baked Brie. |
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