[Cheese] cheese coloring

Jack Schmidling arf at mc.net
Wed Jul 11 09:35:00 EDT 2007


Beth Hill wrote:
>i thot perhaps there would be a natural  source 
> of coloring to use rather than artificial (food coloring).

The standard coloring for cheese is Annatto,  "a derivative of the 
achiote trees of tropical America".  I guess that makes it "natural".

Wikipedia has a nice article on it.

js
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