Stinking Bishop
A Gloucestershire cheese that takes its name from a pear variety rather than its pungency
Stinking Bishop is a cheese made in small quantities in the English county of Gloucestershire.
Produced by cheesemaker Charles Martell in the town of Dymock, the cheese takes its distinctive name not from its strength or pungency but from a variety of pear of the same name.
The unripened cheese round is bathed in perry (a pear cider) made from pears of the Stinking Bishop variety, a process that lends a distinctive flavour to the finished cheese.
The cheese has recently found a wider audience after being featured in a 'Wallace and Grommet' film, as was previously the case with another regional UK cheese, Wensleydale.
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