The strong smell of Limburger has inspired many a moldy joke, but the news of Limburger last week was a serious and hopeful matter. The moldy-looking coating of the cheese, a young scientist reports, contains a potent antibiotic that kills many kinds of microbes and has probably saved a lot of lives.
Limburger research got going ten years ago when a San Francisco bachelor died of botulism after gourmandizing on a jar of cheese spread. The National Cheese Institute wanted to learn how to prevent such deaths, which are caused by microbes that sometimes get into spreads and make botulin, the deadliest...
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