Stilton cheese
(1720-?)

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Died aged 304

Stilton is an English cheese, produced in two varieties: Blue, which has Penicillium roqueforti added to generate a characteristic smell and taste, and White, which does not. Both have been granted the status of a protected designation of origin (PDO) by the European Commission, requiring that only such cheese produced in the three counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire may be called Stilton. The cheese takes its name from the village of Stilton, now in Cambridgeshire, where it has long been sold.

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The Bell, Stilton The birth of Stilton Cheese During the 1720s this Inn was the first place to sell Stilton Cheese. Its then owner, Cooper Thornhill, popularised the cheese and created a substantial and enduring market for the product. "Drink a pot of ale, eat a scoop of Stilton, every day, you will make old bones." Nineteenth-century saying, Wymondham.

The Bell, Great North Road, Stilton, Peterborough, United Kingdom where it was