This German cheese is ripened by live mites, which you then eat
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#76VT3)
According toMilbenkase("mite cheese"), the German specialty is made by flavoring balls of quark with caraway and salt, drying them, and leaving them "in a wooden box containing rye flour and cheese mites for about three months." "
An enzyme in the digestive juices excreted by the mites causes the cheese to ripen." - Read the rest
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