I read…um…somewhere…(sorry)that the bacteria used to make Leiderkrantz cheese has become extinct (or lost), but that someone else was trying to recreate it.
Anyone know how/when/where/why this happened?
Fenris
I saw a while back on the Food Network a show where they interviewed a framager and he talked about lots of cheeses going extinct mainly for economic reasons. If the cheese maker cannot make money they stop making cheese and without the cheese the culture may be lost. I don’t know if the culture actually goes extinct or if it continues to live in nature but would be hard to find again. Perhaps after centuries the culture can only live in the environment that the cheese maker provided.
Here is a link where there seems to be a claim that the Leiderkrantz culture is still alive but that the cheese is unavailable:
And here is a link that for an attempt to keep some varieties of cheese available:
http://www.oldwayspt.org/html/programs.htm#cheese
Not much help I’m afraid, but this is all I could find.