Oka is a Canadian cheese named after the small village of Oka, Quebec where it originated in 1893. Since that time, Quebec has evolved as a centre of quality artisan cheeses. Indeed, many small-scale producers now market some fairly impressive selections.
Oka cheese has a pungent aroma and soft creamy flavour, sometimes described as nutty and [...]
Durrus is a washed rind cow’s milk cheese from Ireland. It was invented by Jeffa Gill in 1979, and is made by traditional methods. Durrus is produced in the valley of Coomkeen, on the Sheep’s Head Peninsula in the southwest corner of Ireland, where local herds provide the raw milk needed to make it.
Durrus is [...]
Cashel Blue is a hand-made, semi-soft, blue veined, medium-strength blue cheese with a creamy texture. Cashel Blue was the first Irish blue cheese, named after the Rock of Cashel overlooking the pastures close to the cheese farm of the family Grubb. It has large blue flecks, made by the action of Penicillium roqueforti. Made in [...]
Mozzarella is a generic term for several kinds of originally Italian cheeses that are made using spinning and then cutting (hence the name; the Italian verb mozzare means “to cut”):
Buffalo Mozarella, made from domesticated water buffalo milk
mozzarella fior di latte, made from fresh pasteurized or unpasteurized cow’s milk
low-moisture mozzarella, which is made from whole or part [...]
Bel Paese is a semi-soft Italian cheese. It was invented in 1906 by Egidio Galbani who wanted to produce a mild and delicate cheese to sell mainly in Italy. The name Bel Paese comes from the title of a book written by Antonio Stoppani. It is Italian for “Beautiful Country”.
Originally produced in Melzo, a small [...]
Waterloo is a semi-soft, off-white British cheese originating from the Duke of Wellington’s estate. It is produced by Village Maid Cheese in Riseley, Berkshire.
Stinking Bishop is a soft washed-rind cheese produced since 1972 by Charles Martell and Son at Laurel Farm, Dymock, Gloucestershire in the South West of England. It is made from the milk of Gloucester cattle, which in 1972 consisted of only 68 Gloucester breed heifers. The breed has been revived to make production of the [...]
Panquehue is a semi-soft Chilean cheese produced in the Andean Aconcagua region. It is one of the most popular cheeses in Chile, it is similar in taste to Tilsit and often has chives or red pepper flakes mixed in.
In 2005, it became the first Chilean cheese imported in the United States as part of [...]
