Motal cheese is a fresh goat's milk cheese made primarily in remote mountain areas in Armenia. Cross of Armenian Unity/Ruslan Torosyan hide caption
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True cheddar cheese can take months â even years â to age. So Claudia Lucero created a faux-cheddar that can be made in very little time. fotolia hide caption
Cheese aging on wooden boards in a cheese cave at Jasper Hill Farm in Greensboro, Vt. DJ Mitchell/Flickr hide caption
Microbiologist Christina Agapakis (left) and artist Sissel Tolass show off the cheese they made with bacteria from human skin. The project was part of Agapakis' graduate thesis at Harvard Medical School. Courtesy of Grow Your Own ... Life After Nature at Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin hide caption
Cows graze in front of the Rosengarten mountain massif in northern Italy. Pasture grazing is practiced throughout the Alps. Matthias Schrader/Associated Press hide caption
Archaeologists believe that ancient farmers used pots made from these pottery shards to make cheese â a less perishable, low-lactose milk product. Nature hide caption
Tim Opper, of Cabot Cheese, inspects equipment that separates whey protein from sugar in the company's whey processing plant. Dan Charles/NPR hide caption