Cheeses

🇲🇳Mongolia

Aaruul

Ааруул

Curd pressed into shapes and dried hard on the roof of a ger for weeks, eaten as a sour, chalky snack that keeps indefinitely.

🇨🇿Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic

Abertam

Abertam is a cheese from Karlovy Vary, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Abondance

Semi-hard mountain cheese from Haute-Savoie with fruity nutty flavor.

🇮🇹Tuscany, Italy

Accasciato

Accasciato is a named Italian cheese from Tuscany, made from its defining local ingredient and finished with a characteristic texture, aroma, and serving form.

🇮🇹Italy

Acceglio

Acceglio is a named Italian cheese from Acceglio, made from its defining local ingredient and finished with a characteristic texture, aroma, and serving form.

🇮🇹Veneto, Italy

Acidino

Acidino is a named Italian cheese from Veneto, made from its defining local ingredient and finished with a characteristic texture, aroma, and serving form.

🇬🇪Adjara, Georgia

Adjarian Cheese in Butter

Ბორანო

Young cheese melted in clarified butter until it separates into strings sitting in a pool of golden fat, eaten with bread.

🇷🇺North Caucasus, Russia

Adygei Cheese

Адыгейский сыр

Soft Circassian cheese from the North Caucasus.

🇬🇷Western Greece, Greece

Afrina

Άφρηνα

A soft whey cheese from the Missolonghi lagoons, formed from the foam (afrina) that rises when goat-milk whey is heated, eaten fresh with honey or in sweet pies.

🇪🇸Asturias, Spain

Afuega'l Pitu Cheese

Queso Afuega'l Pitu

Asturian cow's-milk cheese, one of Spain's oldest, with PDO.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Akkawi Cheese

عكاوي

A white brined cheese, smooth and squeaky, soaked to remove salt before eating and used in flatbreads and sweet pastries.

🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

Allgaeuer Limburger

Allgäuer Limburger is a washed-rind cow-milk cheese with a supple cream-coloured body and assertive savoury aroma.

🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

Allgaeuer Tilsiter

Allgäuer Tilsiter is a semi-hard cow-milk cheese with small irregular eyes, tangy lactic flavour and a firm slice.

🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

Allgäu Emmental

Allgäuer Emmentaler

EU-protected Emmental from the Allgäu region, with large holes and a nutty, complex flavor from alpine milk.

🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

Allgäu Mountain Cheese

Allgäuer Bergkäse

EU-protected mountain cheese from the Allgäu, with firm texture and complex nutty flavor from alpine milk.

🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

Allgäuer Sennalpkäse

Allgäuer Sennalpkäse is a dense alpine cow-milk cheese made from summer pasture milk and aged to a nutty, savoury finish.

🇮🇹Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

Alta Badia

Alta Badia is a named Italian cheese from South Tyrol, made from its defining local ingredient and finished with a characteristic texture, aroma, and serving form.

🇩🇪Thuringia, Germany

Altenburger Ziegenkäse

Altenburger Ziegenkäse is a soft-ripened goat-milk cheese with a bloomy rind, mild tang and creamy centre.

🇨🇾Cyprus

Anari

Αναρή

Fresh whey cheese made from the liquid left over from halloumi, soft and barely salted, or salted and dried hard for grating.

🇦🇩Andorra

Andorran Fresh Cheese

Brossat

Fresh cheese from Andorra, highly valued by shepherds for its high protein content; a cottage cheese made from cow's or sheep's milk; produced by Casa Raubert and El Batall; a traditional Pyrenean cheese; eaten fresh or used in cooking; the cheese of Andorran shepherds; found at cheese shops and restaurants; a high-protein mountain staple.

🇬🇷Greek Macedonia, Greece

Anevato

Ανεβατό

Macedonia/Thrace PDO soft whey cheese.

🇬🇷Chania, Greece

Anthogalo

Ανθόγαλο

A fresh cream-cheese from Naxos made from cow whey enriched with milk, soft enough to spread and the base of the island's honeyed sweets.

🇬🇷Greece

Anthotyros

Ανθότυρος

A Greek soft, mild whey cheese with a creamy texture, from sheep or goat milk. Used in desserts, pies, or on bread, a PDO cheese, a delicate and sweet dairy, a spring specialty.

🇨🇭Appenzell, Switzerland

Appenzeller

A hard cows' cheese washed during ripening with a herbal brine whose recipe the makers keep secret, giving a pungent, tangy rind.

🇺🇸United States

Arizona Cheese Crisp

A large flour tortilla baked until crisp under a blanket of melted cheese, often served with a bowl of chili or salsa.

🇬🇷South Aegean, Greece

Arseniko Naxou

Αρσενικό Νάξου

Naxos raw sheep-and-goat PDO cheese.

🇪🇸Galicia, Spain

Arzúa-Ulloa Cheese

Arzúa-Ulloa

Galician creamy cow's-milk dessert cheese.

🇮🇹Italy

Asiago

Asiago is a named Italian cheese from Asiago, made from its defining local ingredient and finished with a characteristic texture, aroma, and serving form.

🇮🇹Veneto, Italy

Asiago d'allevo

Veneto PDO hard/aged cow cheese.

🇮🇹Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy

Asìno

Asìno is a named Italian cheese from Friuli-Venezia Giulia, made from its defining local ingredient and finished with a characteristic texture, aroma, and serving form.

🇫🇮Finland

Aura Blue Cheese

Aura-juusto

Iconic Finnish blue cheese made from cow's milk by Valio, named after Aura river, creamy and salty, matured 6 weeks.

🇦🇹Austria

Austrian Quark

Topfen

Austrian curd cheese similar to quark but with lower moisture, essential ingredient in many Austrian dishes, proper crumbly texture, a foundational staple.

🇮🇹Italy

Axridda

Axridda is a named Italian cheese from Metropolitan City of Cagliari, made from its defining local ingredient and finished with a characteristic texture, aroma, and serving form.

🇫🇷France

Baguette laonnaise

Baguette laonnaise is a named French cheese associated with France, recognized for its own rind, aging, and milk character.

🇮🇳West Bengal, India

Bandel

ব্যান্ডেল চিজ

Bandel is a small Bengal cheese made by salting and pressing fresh curds into firm rounds, sometimes finished with a smoky rind.

🇫🇷Provence, France

Banon

Small goat cheese wrapped in chestnut leaves from Provence.