Stilton Found to be from.... Stilton!

The origins of Stilton cheese have been a mystery for a long time, but recent events seem to have finally pinned them down to the village of Stilton, of all places. As yesterday's Times article described, "Richard Landy, a local historian, found a letter dated 1722 to Richard Bradley, the first professor of botany at the University of Cambridge, which had a recipe for the cheese attached to it. The author of the letter, Francis Pawlett, wrote of a delicious cheese produced by Cooper Thornhill, the well-known landlord of the Bull Inn, in Stilton." The full story is here.