Stilton is a medium soft, mildly creamy and tangy blue-veined cheese, often referred to in the UK as the King of Cheese. It enjoys Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status, which means the cheese ...

Villagers in Stilton have had their bid to make and sell the smelly blue cheese of the same name rejected. At present, EU law only allows Stilton to be produced in Leicestershire, Derbyshire and ...

This famous lunch in Britain is a classic standard at homes and pubs, but it's history, and its name, is more folklore than ...

As the last family-owned and run Stilton maker, Cropwell Bishop Creamery has maintained a bastion of tradition in an age of private equity takeovers chasing short-term gains. Robin Skailes, managing ...

From an aged Red Leicester to a crumbly Wensleydale, I adore cheese in all its varieties - but, as the lorries at Long Clawson Dairy declare, Stilton really is "The King of English Cheeses" and its ...

The village of Stilton may have lent its name to the famous blue cheese, but residents are facing a battle to use the name themselves. An EU law only allows Stilton to be produced by six farms in ...

A Cambridgeshire village is welcoming the return of a "quirky" food tradition that began in the 1950s but ended seven years ago - partly for being "uncool". The Stilton Cheese Rolling Festival will ...

The British government has told a pub in the village of Stilton that it can't call its cheese Stilton. The name is protected by a law that says true Stilton cheese can come from three specific regions ...

A 39-year-old from Liverpool has been undone by a block of cheese. While the most any of us typically suffer from cheese-based lapses in judgment is a bad stomachache and a permanent ban from county ...

With all this talk of Human Cheese, we're thinking—and reading!—a lot about the microorganisms in cheese and in our bodies. In this week's round-up, researchers discover "secondary flora" that ...

It's official — Stilton cheese was invented in the British village of Stilton. Evidence from around 1740 indicated the famous fromage was first made in another place. But a local historian in Stilton ...