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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Cheddar
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Britain's best-known cheese, due to the name becoming a general term for any that is smooth, medium-hard and pale or yellow. The general run of packaged cheddar has given the original version a bad name – indeed it used to be widely known as 'mousetrap'. But a traditional farmhouse Cheddar, increasingly in demand again in the 1990s, can be deliciously tangy and moist. Cheddar was only one of many Somerset villages making cheese of this kind from at least the 16C; but sales were mainly to visitors to the famous *Cheddar Gorge, so the rest of the world came to know Somerset cheese by that name.
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