Freezing cheese and tall people
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The holidays seem like a long time ago, but there was tremendous amounts of cheese to be consumed in our house. I wound up freezing some Stilton, and this has become one of my favourite grab and go items. I pull the wedge out of the freezer, use a knife to crumble a segment, and then put it on all kinds of things: pizza, salad, pasta, potatoes. I’m now running out of the blue stuff and am looking around to buy another chunk, which I will now pop in the freezer. Handy things to have and using frozen cheese is a clever way to get that nutrition on the plate quickly and with loads of flavour.
Speaking of nutrition, there was an article in The Times over the weekend about how Dutch people, who are the tallest in the world, are getting shorter.
A love of dairy products was offered as one reason for the height in the past, according to Professor Gert Stulp of Groningen University, who is himself over two metres tall. Past adverts calling milk the “white motor” in the country, along with the cheese sandwich being just about the only national sandwich the Netherlands has, also contributing factors. That and a good national health service.
However, in recent years this has been dropping for many reasons – smaller people moving into the country, more junk food, veganism and the economic crash of 2007. Or, perhaps we all aren’t supposed to reach three metres tall after all.
At any rate, in our house the men are not Dutch, although they are often mistaken for either being Dutch or German, as they are quite tall and fair haired (husband is 197cm and child is 192cm). Also, the spouse has been mistaken for British comedian Greg Davies more than once, but that’s another matter. Davies is taller than him (207cm or thereabouts). I live with giraffes, as I am only 175cm.
- Suzanne Christiansen, editor, Dairy Industries International.
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