Speaking of sets of Food Network cooking shows... maybe you all know this already (did we talk about this here once before?) but Ina Garten's "Barefoot Contessa" series? The first couple years the show was filmed in her beautiful home kitchen. Even though it was a roomy space- for a home kitchen... the "smallness" of it presented many challenges for her film crews. SO... an exact replica- with HUGE floor-space and WIDER pass areas for instance, between her kitchen island and the counter-tops was built on a new "set-kitchen" in a barn on her property, to accomodate cameras, dollys, carts, a team of film-crew, etc... So her shows are still filmed at home. And her set-kitchen looks exactly the s ame as it did before- but it's actually a new kitchen in a barn across the yard w/ double the original floor-space/square-footage! Interesting, huh?

Barefoot Contessa - Barn - Ina Garten - House Beautiful

Doing a bit of resesarch regarding cheddar cheeses here in the states, I found that the original dairyman Harding is the one that introduced the making of it here. I love Vermont Cheddar and New York Cheddar. I prefer extra sharp myself.
I would love to try that which is made in Cheddar. Just reading about it and the after taste of apples really sounds appealing. Cheddar cheese and apples has always been a great combination to me. I even put cheddar cheese in my apple pie.

I must concede that probably, Cheddar is the most basic cheese available. All the other cheeses in the UK, can only be slight variations of the original recipe. Although 'Cheshire' is beautifully creamy. Caerphilly is another famous cheese, from Wales. Some years ago An attempt was made to produce a British equivalent of Camembert. They called it 'Lymeswold' I liked it. But they stopped producing it after a year or so.
Do you also get Cheddar in Mild, Normal and Mature, as we do?

Yes, we have Mild, sharp, exrta sharp and then the more expensive artisian aged cheddars. I'm sure there are aslo so many different types like Colby and Monterey Jack.

Wow Kevin, I love PBS and yet watch it so little all because I have so many other choices. Now after reding your post I will have to make a concious effort to watch it a little more often! Of-course I really do not spend much time watching at all, I do not have much time to indulge in that pleasure.