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  • Helen ManthorpIngredientsSliced white breadCheddar and edam cheese, gratedThinly sliced or chopped onionButter, if you insist When I left university and moved on to my first houseboat with Tom, we had unlimited free electricity because there was an abandoned substation in a disused building next to our mooring.

    Family life 2011

  • At this little factory they made a great variety of cheese: brie, edam, manchego, parmesan, gouda, camembert, among others.

    The Cheese Run « Unknowing 2010

  • "Artisan cheese is a tough business," said Beau Schoch, who in 2009 began selling an aged Monterey Jack and a Dutch-style edam made at his family's dairy in Salinas.

    To Save the Farm, Some Turn to Cheese Ben Worthen 2011

  • Many of these you might find in a grocery store, though finding edam will baffle you.

    The Cheese Run « Unknowing 2010

  • Tonight, that involves getting Tulisa from N'Dubz and John Simpson into the same room and throwing edam on to Brendan Cole's face.

    Watch this Neha-Tamara Patel 2010

  • Myra sliced edam and put it on plates with last night's three-bean salad, cherry tomatoes, mandarin oranges and broccoli florets.

    MORE FROM GINNY BATES: MYRA AND GILLAM Maggie Jochild 2007

  • She added grated edam and chopped tomatoes before pouring it into a skillet.

    MORE FROM GINNY BATES: SETTING UP HOUSE Maggie Jochild 2007

  • October 17, 2009 at 6:29 am i don give edam if it not have cheeze

    Burgers…check… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Hannah was finishing off the last of the minestrone, also with corn cakes and a bit of edam.

    MORE FROM GINNY BATES: MYRA AND GILLAM Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Queso edam: Although not considered a Mexican cheese, Edam has become such an intrinsic part of Yucatecan regional cooking that it is worth including here.

    A Guide to Mexican Cheese: Queso Mexicano 2006

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  • This well-known cheese is made backwards.

    November 2, 2007

  • Legend has it that the Uruguayans once defeated the Argentinian navy by using old, hard edam cheeses as cannonballs.

    April 14, 2009

  • I like that legend. Is it the origin of the (ridiculous) phrase, meaning something like "tough luck," "That's just hard cheese"?

    AHUH! AHUH-HUH!!! <---upper-class twit laugh

    April 14, 2009