Blue cheese mold would form. According to legend, Roquefort was discovered when a youth, eating a lunch of bread and ewes' milk cheese, abandoned his meal in a nearby cave after seeing a beautiful girl in the distance. When he returned months later, the mold ("Penicillium roqueforti") had transformed his cheese into Roquefort. Gorgonzola is one of the oldest known blue cheeses, having been created around 879 AD, though it is said that it did not actually contain blue veins until around the 11th century. Stilton is a relatively new addition becoming popular sometime in the early 1700s. Many varieties of blue
Muggiano (district of Milan) Muggiano (district of Milan) Muggiano ( ) is a district ("quartiere") of Milan, Italy, part of the Zone 7 administrative division of the city. It is located in western periphery, bordering on the "comune"s of Cesano Boscone, Cusago, Settimo Milanese, and Trezzano sul Naviglio. Before being annexed to Baggio (in 1869), which in turn was annexed to Milan, Muggiano used to an autonomous comune. The name "Muggiano" is of Roman origin; the place used to be called "Modianus", after the governor of its territory, named "Modius". Until the 1990s, Muggiano was mostly a scarcely populated, rural district, with a landscape