Cheeses

🇫🇷Occitanie, France

Rocamadour

Small disc goat cheese from the Lot region, creamy and mild.

🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

Romadur

Romadur is a soft-ripened cow-milk cheese with a thin washed rind, supple paste and pronounced savoury aroma.

🇫🇷Occitanie, France

Roquefort

Sheep's milk blue cheese aged in natural limestone caves, intense salty creamy flavor.

🇪🇬Egypt

Rumi Cheese

جبنة رومي

An aged Egyptian hard cheese, firm and sharp, similar to a mature cheddar or romano.

🇩🇰Denmark

Rygeost

Smoked cheese from Funen, one of Denmark’s oldest cheeses.

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sack Cheese

Sir iz mijeha

Cheese packed into a whole cured sheep- or goatskin and left to ripen for months until it turns sharp, oily and pungent.

🇬🇷Greece

Saganaki

Σαγανάκι

A thick slice of kefalograviera or kefalotyri cheese floured and seared in a dry pan until a crust forms, served sizzling with lemon to cut the salt. Named for the two-handled pan it is cooked in.

🇫🇷France

Saint Felicien

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

🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Saint-Marcellin

Small soft cow's milk cheese from Rhone-Alpes with a creamy texture.

🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Saint-Nectaire

Supple cheese from Auvergne with earthy nutty flavors.

🇫🇷Centre-Val de Loire, France

Sainte-Maure de Touraine

Log-shaped goat cheese with ashed rind and a straw through the center, from the Loire Valley.

🇵🇱Poland

Salceson

Polish head cheese: a sausage of pork head meat, tongue, and skin in a natural casing, seasoned with spices. Served cold in slices, a rustic, savory sandwich meat.

🇬🇷South Aegean, Greece

San Michali

Σαν Μιχάλη

Syros PDO hard cheese.

🇪🇸Galicia, Spain

San Simón Cheese

Queso San Simón

Smoked teardrop-shaped cheese from Lugo, Galicia.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Sbrinz

An extra-hard cows' cheese aged at least eighteen months, broken into chips with a knife or shaved into curls rather than grated.

🇮🇹Italy

Scamorza

Southern Italian stretched-curd cheese, often smoked.

🇨🇭Glarus, Switzerland

Schabziger

A hard, pale green skimmed-milk cheese flavoured with blue fenugreek, sold as a cone and grated over pasta or mixed into butter.

🇨🇭Schwyz, Switzerland

Schwyzer Alpkase

Schwyzer Alpkase is a firm cow-milk mountain cheese made from summer alpine pasture milk, with a nutty savoury body.

🇫🇷Centre-Val de Loire, France

Selles-sur-Cher

Flat disc-shaped goat cheese with an ashed rind from the Loire Valley.

🇵🇱Podlasie, Poland

Ser Koryciński Swojski

Koryciński

Ser Koryciński Swojski is a cheese from Sokółka County, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇪🇪Setomaa, Estonia

Seto Curd Cheese

Sõir

Soft caraway-flavored cheese from Setomaa made with whole milk, cottage cheese, butter, eggs and caraway, EU protected.

🇬🇷Peloponnese, Greece

Sfela

Σφέλα

A Greek brined PDO cheese from Mani, Peloponnese, made from sheep or goat milk, salty and semi-hard. Used in pies or as a table cheese, a regional specialty, a Mani dairy.

🇮🇳India

Shahi Paneer

शाही पनीर

A Mughlai paneer curry in a rich, creamy tomato and cashew sauce. It is a royal vegetarian dish often served at celebrations.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Shanklish

شنكليش

Balls of aged, fermented cheese rolled in za'atar and chilli and left to develop a rind, sharply pungent and crumbly.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

Shor

Şor

Fresh salted curd drained in cloth, eaten spread on bread or folded into pastry fillings.

🇬🇧United Kingdom

Shropshire Blue

A blue cheese from Nottinghamshire with an orange annatto-coloured paste and blue veining, a cross between Cheshire and Stilton in flavour.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Single Gloucester Cheese

Single Gloucester Cheese is a protected collective food or drink identity with a defined regional specification.

🇭🇷Croatia

Sir S Vrhnjem

In Croatia, Sir S Vrhnjem is fresh curd cheese with sour cream, bacon, and onion.

🇸🇮Slovenia

Sireki

Sireki are Slovene Hills fresh-cheese rounds seasoned with herbs and matured until their texture firms.

🇷🇸Western Serbia, Serbia

Sjenica Cheese

Сјенички сир

Sjenički sir is a firm white-brined cheese from the southwest Serbian mountains, including the Zlatar area. It is cut into slabs and aged in brine for a clean, salty tang.

🇳🇴Norway

Ski Queen (Skitteost)

Ski Queen

A branded Norwegian brown cheese (brunost) from Tine, sweet and caramelized, exported globally.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Slovenska Bryndza

Slovenská bryndza

Slovenská bryndza is a tangy, crumbly sheep-milk cheese made from fermented curd and used as the foundation of bryndzové halušky.

🇨🇿Czech Republic

Smažený sýr

Rántott sajt

A Czech fried cheese (Edam or Hermelín) in breadcrumbs, served with tartar sauce and potatoes, a street and pub classic

🇷🇴Romania

Smoked Cașcaval

Cașcaval afumat

Yellow pulled-curd cașcaval cold-smoked over hardwood until the rind turns amber and the cheese takes on a deep smoky aroma.

🇾🇪Taiz, Yemen

Smoked Taiz Cheese

Jibna madkhana

A firm cow's cheese from the Taiz highlands, smoked over wood until the rind turns dark and the paste takes the smell.

🇸🇮Slovenia

Solčavski sirnek

Solčavski sirnek is a fermented cheese from Solčava, made from curd and matured into a tangy spreadable form.