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
Baggio (district of Milan) Baggio (district of Milan) Baggio ( ) is a district ("quartiere") of Milan, Italy, part of the Zone 7 administrative division of the city. Before being annexed to Milan in 1923, it was an autonomous "comune". The origin of name "Baggio" is disputed. Some scholars suggest that it might be from a Roman military tower called "Badalocum" (in Latin, "watch the place"); others have it derive from a toponymy "Badia Aggeris", possibly referring to an abbey, which over time was contracted into "Badagio" and later distorted into "Badaglo", then "Badaxio", and eventually "Baggio". A settlement in Baggio (most probably of