Elizabeth Chubbuck, of Murray's Cheese in New York, said adding color comes from the time when cheesemakers in England took the butterfat from milk to make butter.
When I was learning as an apprentice cheesemaker in Greece, One of the best meals of my life is like a bowl of cold sheep milk yogurt with like a crust of cold fat on top.
Pasteurisation makes sense for big cheese companies that need to quickly and efficiently safeguard customers, but independent cheesemakers say pasteurising removes crucial flavour-giving bacteria.