Illustrated cheese board featuring ash-coated cheeses including Morbier with a black ash line, an ash-rinded goat cheese log, and Humboldt Fog-style cheese, with bowls of vegetable ash and herbs on a rustic wooden table.

Why Some Cheeses Are Covered in Ash (And What It Actually Does to the Cheese)

Back in the day, it was used to keep the flies away. Read on if you want to know why, in this day and age, there is ash in your cheese.

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