What are you eating?

[fahoumh]

I find that it is a love it or hate it thing. Most people I know either haven't tasted it yet, or dislike it, or worst of all, both. Yet, those that do eat it love it.

I also find that majority of those who do appreciate its flavour tend to be the ones with more sophisticated palates.

This might be because cheeses are not really a big part of my country's cuisine. The most common cheese we use here is called "processed cheese food", which obviously is not even real cheese. The sad thing about that is, most people don't even care or can't tell the difference between that and emmental, or gruyere.

I remember liking it the first time I tried it more than 10 years ago. And I would agree that people with more sophisticated palates tend to like blue cheese but someone else could counter with the "different strokes for different folks" adage. When I think of cooking with cheese in my culture, I would say there is a tendency to use it more in baking, particularly sweets. The first thing that comes to mind is knafe.

If you don't mind, I'd be happy.