When I ask how his Dragon's Breath Blue cheese is made, Willem van den Hoek, owner of That Dutchman's Farm in Nova Scotia, is cagey: "You can ask me the questions, but I'm not going to tell you ...

This blue is infused with eight-year-old rum and coated in cocoa powder. A hard-to-get cheese with a $150-a-kilogram price tag, it's currently available at Toronto's Cheese Boutique.

Like other dairy products, cheese can spoil due to the growth of bacteria, mold s, or yeasts. Here are some simple ways to check the quality and freshness of cheese at home.

Blue cheese is usually cow’s milk cheese, although there are some varieties made from goats and sheep. These days, people don’t just let cheese get moldy in random caves like that weirdo shepherd.

And is it like perfect, good, stinky blue cheese? It doesn't smell too bad. It smells pretty good. The flavour's quite mild but it's got a complex finish to it, we call it.