It is often eaten with crackers, biscuits or bread. It can also be used to make a blue cheese sauce served over a steak. It can be crumbled over a salad. The cheese is traditionally eaten at Christmas. The edible rind of the cheese forms naturally during the aging process.
White Stilton is the same cheese but has not had the "Penicillium roqueforti" mould introduced into it. It is a crumbly, creamy, open textured cheese.
A 2005 survey by the British Cheese Board reported that Stilton seemed to cause unusual dreams, with 75% of men and 85% of women experiencing "odd and vivid" dreams after eating a 20-gram serving of the cheese half an hour prior to sleeping.
George Orwell wrote an essay, "In Defence of English Cooking", first published in the "Evening Standard" on 15 December 1945. While enumerating the high points of British cuisine, he touches on Stilton: "Then there are the English cheeses. There are not many of them, but I fancy that Stilton is the best cheese of its type in the world, with Wensleydale not far behind."
The Stilton Cheese Makers Association produced a fragrance called "Eau de Stilton", which was "very different to the very sweet perfumes you smell wafting down the street as someone walks past you."
The search for an unpasteurised Stilton cheese was a plot element of a "Chef!" episode titled "The Big Cheese", aired on BBC1 on 25 February 1993.
A character named G. D'Arcy "Stilton" Cheesewright appears in several of the Jeeves novels of P. G. Wodehouse.
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In the 1667 to 1668 War of (the) Devolution, France occupied the Spanish-controlled provinces of Spanish Netherlands and Franche-Comté. Because of one law not many people knew about (called the Jus Devolutionis), Louis XIV claimed these provinces 'devolved' to him because of his marriage to Maria Theresa of Spain.
Alliances/Countries Fighting
-England, Kingdom of Sweden, and the Dutch (Triple Alliance)
The Spanish Empire
-France
War
King Louis had claimed territory from the Spanish Empire as his own, due to his marriage of Maria Theresa, starting the initial conflict between France and the Spanish Empire. The Triple Alliance, (England, Sweden, and The Netherlands,) decided to intervene in this war, but not allying with either side. They saw 2 countries now weakened by war and realized they could expand. They also did this for the protection of each side, because both were a vital piece to trade in Europe and the world. The French soldiers marched into Flanders, (now in Belgium) and easily secured the city. Just a year later after almost a standoff, they came to a peace treaty with Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I. They would partition the Spanish Dominions until the king's death, and France would annex part of the Netherlands.
SOURCES:
Brittanica: War of Devolution
Wikipedia "EN" edition: War of DevolutionNick Fish
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He was accused of being a terrorist over his activities in Kuwait in the 1980s. He was sentenced to death in absentia by a court in Kuwait for his involvement in 1983 Kuwait bombings.