Previously, we’ve covered the cheesy history of cheese. Now we’re getting granular with it all, starting off with that pallid blob—mozzarella. Iconic, weird looking, and very bloody tasty, this stuff is mysterious and really quite enthralling once you dig into its squishy complexities.

What’s Mozzarella?
It’s a cheese made from Italian buffalo or cow’s milk, with the end result a squishy, stringy, white blob at the end of it all. The pasta filata method is used to create mozzarella, which is the process of stretching and pulling the cheesy curd. A bit like how noodles are made (see the history of noodles).