Cheese Is Alive, and Its Packaging Has to Respect That

Assortment of cheese: sliced cheese in a clear tray, shredded cheese in a stand-up pouch, and a cheese sauce in a cardboard box on a blue cloth backdrop.

Most food packaging has one job: keep the outside world out. Cheese is more complicated, because cheese is, in a real sense, still alive. Aged cheeses carry living cultures that keep working after the cheese leaves the make room, producing carbon dioxide as they mature. Seal that cheese in a fully airtight pack and it […]