Limburger cheese is widely believed to have been first made in the historic Duchy of Limburg, an area that now spans across areas of the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.

A Limburger wrapper is made of a paper-plastic that prevents the cheese from drying out, then it’s wrapped with foil — which Olson says is traditional with smear cheeses. “Don’t put it in ...

Cheese lovers should take a trip to Wisconsin in summer and fall for some of the best cheese festivals in the United States.

Limburger is a washed-rind cow's milk cheese, like Munster, Pont l'Eveque, Reblochon, Taleggio, Red Hawk and other highly fragrant cheeses. During its two- to three-month aging period, the brick ...

The sign above the bar in Baumgartner's Cheese Store and Tavern in Monroe, Wis., warns visitors about the perils of sampling the $3.25 house specialty — a slab of Limburger cheese on rye bread ...

It's no secret that limburger cheese stinks. Its legendary odor has been compared to body odor, stinky feet and a variety of dead or dying creatures. Sadly, many people won't even give it a taste ...

Chalet Cheese Cooperative in Monroe is the only cheesemaker in the U.S. producing Limburger cheese. That's been true since the 1980s.

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does ...

James Beard Award-winning Nina Barrett searches across two countries for a cheese that's most famous for being a punchline. Searching for (and eating) the stinkiest cheese - WBEZ Chicago ...