Say Cheese !
Mac
OS has cats (well, they used to). Android has desserts. LIMS has cheese.
Starting with LIMS version 2.2, we have started to name our
releases after types of cheese. Send us your cheese names if you
have suggestions for our next release.
All work and no play makes Mickey a dull mouse. Can you find
the 10 pieces of cheese we've hidden around the LIMS application?
LIMS Releases
From www.cheese.com
Release 2.10 - Kefalotyri
Kefalotyri
dates back to the Byzantine era. This cheese is believed to be
the ancestor of most hard Greek cheeses.
- Made from pasteurized goat's or sheep's milk
- Country of origin: Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey
- Type: hard
- Texture: firm and flaky
- Colour: pale yellow
Release 2.9 - Jarlsberg
Jarlsberg
is often marketed as a Swiss cheese because of its
characteristics, though it tends to be sweeter and stronger than
Emmentaler.
- Made from pasteurized cow's milk
- Country of origin: Norway
- Type: semi-soft
- Texture: open, smooth, and supple
- Colour: pale yellow
Release 2.8 - Idiazabal
Idiazabal
(also known as Queso Idiazabal La Vasco Navarra) is a
traditional, farmhouse, hard cheese made from raw milk of Latxa
or Carranza sheep in the Basque and Navarra regions of northern
Spain.
- Made from unpasteurized sheep's milk
- Country of origin: Spain
- Type: hard
- Fat content: 45 - 50%
- Texture: compact, oily, open and supple
- Colour: pale yellow
Release 2.7 - Havarti
Havarti
is Denmark's most famous cheese.
- Made from cow's milk
- Country of origin: Denmark
- Type: semi-soft
- Fat content: 45%
- Texture: smooth
- Colour: pale yellow
Release 2.6 - Gouda
Gouda
(or "How-da" as the locals say) is a Dutch cheese named after
the city of Gouda in the Netherlands. If truth be told, it is
one of the most popular cheeses in the world, accounting for 50
to 60 percent of the world's cheese consumption. Since the name
is not protected, it has become a generic classification for all
cheeses produced and sold under the name Gouda.
- Made from cow's, goat's, or sheep's milk
- Country of origin: Netherlands
- Type: semi-hard
- Fat content: 31%
- Texture: compact, crumbly, dense, and springy
- Colour: yellow
Release 2.5 - Feta
Feta
is undoubtedly one of the most famous Greek cheeses. The cheese
is protected by EU legislations and only those cheeses
manufactured in Macedonia, Thrace, Thessaly, Central Mainland
Greece, the Peloponnese and Lesvos can be called ‘feta’.
- Made from goat's and sheep's milk
- Country of origin: Greece
- Type: soft
- Fat content: 16%
- Texture: creamy, crumbly, grainy and open
- Colour: white
Release 2.4 - Edam
Edam is a semi-hard cheese that originated
in the Netherlands, and is named after the town of Edam in the
province of North Holland. Edam is traditionally sold in spheres
with a pale yellow interior and a coat of red paraffin wax.
- Made primarily from cow / goat's milk
- Country of origin: Netherlands
- Type: semi-hard
- Fat content: 10%
- Texture: semi-hard
- Colour: white
Release 2.3 - Danublu (aka. Danish Blue)
Danablu (Danish Blue) is a semi-soft blue
veined cheese, made from cow's milk. Produced by Rosenborg at
Denmark, it has creamy and crumbly texture. The cheese belongs
to blue cheese family. In eight to twelve months, it matures
with a yellowish edible rind. It is sharp and salty in taste
with 25-30% fat. Suitable for non-vegetarians, it can be paired
with Cabernet.
- Made from cow's milk
- Country of origin: Denmark
- Type: semi-soft, blue-veined
- Fat content: 25-30%
- Texture: creamy and crumbly
- Colour: white
Release 2.2 - Cheddar
Cheddar
cheese, the most widely purchased and eaten cheese in the world
is always made from cow's milk. It is a hard and natural cheese
that has a slightly crumbly texture if properly cured and if it
is too young, the texture is smooth. It gets a sharper taste as
it matures, over a period of time between 9 to 24 months. Shaped
like a drum, 15 inches in diameter, Cheddar cheese is natural
rind bound in cloth while its color generally ranges from white
to pale yellow. However, some Cheddars may have a manually added
yellow-orange color.
- Made from cow's milk
- Country of origin: England
- Region: Somerset
- Type: hard, artisan, processed
- Fat content: 9 g/100g
- Texture: crumbly
- Colour: pale yellow
Release 2.1 - Brie
Brie is
the best known French cheese and has a nickname "The Queen of
Cheeses". Brie is a soft cheese named after the French region
Brie, where it was originally created. Several hundred years
ago, Brie was one of the tributes which had to be paid to the
French kings.
- Made from cow's milk
- Country of origin: France
- Region: Seine-et-Marne
- Type: soft, soft-ripened
- Fat content: 8.4 g/100g
- Texture: soft-ripened
- Rind: bloomy
- Colour: white
Release 2.0 - Asiago
Asiago,
is a cow's milk cheese, produced only on the Asiago plateau in
the Veneto foothills in Italy. The cheese-making tradition in
the provinces of Vicenza and Trento dates back to more than
thousand years. Traditionally, it was made from sheep's milk but
today it is produced from unpasteurized cow's milk.
- Made from cow's milk
- Country of origin: Italy
- Region: Veneto, Trentino
- Type: hard
- Fat content: 34-48%
- Texture: crumbly, open and smooth
- Rind: natural
- Colour: yellow
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