Cheeses

🇫🇷France

Soumaintrain

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

🇮🇹Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Squacquerone di Romagna

Soft, spreadable cow's milk cheese from Romagna, the traditional filling of piadina. Mild, tangy, and very fresh—eaten within days.

🇭🇷Lika, Croatia

Squeaky Cheese

Škripavac

In Lika, Škripavac is a fresh squeaky Croatian cow-milk cheese with a springy texture when cut or bitten.

🇬🇷Crete, Greece

Staka

Στάκα

A Cretan dairy product: a creamy, buttery foam from sheep milk, used as a topping or in pies. A regional specialty, rich and savory, a Cretan comfort food, served warm.

🇮🇹Lombardy, Italy

Stracchino di Crescenza

Soft cow's milk cheese from Lombardy-Piedmont, with a tangy creamy paste and mild rind. The filling of focaccia col formaggio di Recco.

🇮🇹Apulia, Italy

Stracciatella

The creamy heart of burrata: mozzarella shreds soaked in fresh cream. Sold on its own, it is the most decadent fresh Italian cheese.

🇨🇷Costa Rica

String Cheese

Queso palmito

String cheese resembling knotted ball, similar to mozzarella, made with pasta filata technique, a Costa Rican specialty.

🇱🇧Lebanon

String Cheese

جبنة مشللة

A braided, brined cheese pulled into fine strings and flavoured with nigella seed and mahleb.

🇦🇼Aruba

Stuffed Cheese

Keshi Yena

A whole Edam or Gouda rind filled with spiced meat, olives, capers, raisins, onions, and peppers, then baked or steamed until the cheese melts.

🇬🇪Georgia

Sulguni

Სულგუნი

A pulled-curd brined cheese, elastic and salty when young, sold as flat discs and also smoked to a golden brown.

🇦🇹Vorarlberg, Austria

Sura Kees

Sura Kees is a young Montafon sour-milk cheese with a soft, moist curd and a clean lactic tang.

🇱🇮St. Gallen, Liechtenstein

Surchäs / Bloder-Sauerkäse

Surakäs

Surchäs / Bloder-Sauerkäse is a protected sour-milk cheese from the Swiss and Liechtenstein Rhine Valley, known locally as Surchäs, Bloderchäs, or Surakäs.

🇸🇪Sweden

Svecia Cheese

Svecia

Hard cheese with protected geographical indication, sharp and tangy flavor, a traditional Swedish cheese.

🇨🇭Thurgau, Switzerland

Swiss Tilsiter

Tilsiter

A semi-hard washed-rind cows' cheese with small irregular holes, sold in red, green and yellow label grades by milk type and age.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Sérac

A fresh whey cheese made from what is left after hard-cheese production, mild and crumbly, eaten fresh or smoked.

🇲🇽Mexico

Tacos de frijoles con queso

Bean-and-cheese tacos, simple and filling.

🇩🇿Tlemcen, Algeria

Takemmarit

تكمريت

Traditional cheese from the west of the country, curdled with kid rennet and pressed into small rounds.

🇮🇹Lombardy, Italy

Taleggio

PDO soft washed-rind cow's milk cheese from Val Taleggio, pungent rind and creamy interior. One of Italy's oldest cheeses, mentioned in 1200.

🇷🇴Romania

Telemea

A white brined cheese of sheep, cow or buffalo milk, salty and crumbly, sold in wet blocks and eaten with tomatoes and bread.

🇷🇴Transylvania, Romania

Telemea de Ibănești

A wet, crumbly brined cheese of cow's or sheep's milk from the Gurghiu valley, aged at least 20 days in brine, with a sweet-sour creamy flavour.

🇷🇴Transylvania, Romania

Telemea de Sibiu

A named brined sheep cheese from Sibiu County, crumbly and salty with a clean lactic aroma and protected regional identity.

🇬🇪Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia

Tenili Cheese

Ტენილი ყველი

A Meskhetian sheep's milk cheese stretched into very thin threads and braided, a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage product from Samtskhe-Javakheti.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Testouri Cheese

جبن تستوري

Fresh sheep's-milk cheese from Testour in the Medjerda valley, drained in baskets and eaten within days, mild and faintly sour.

🇪🇸Galicia, Spain

Tetilla Cheese

Queixo de tetilla

A soft, mild Galician cow's milk cheese with a distinctive conical breast-like shape, creamy and slightly tangy, perfect for melting.

🇨🇭Thurgau, Switzerland

Thurgauer Käseschnitten

Thurgauer Käseschnitten are slices of bread soaked with white wine, covered with cheese and baked until bubbling.

🇸🇮Slovenia

Tolminc

Protected raw cow's milk cheese from the Tolmin valleys, pressed into flat wheels and matured at least two months into a firm, faintly sweet paste.

🇮🇹Piedmont, Italy

Toma Piemontese

PDO Piedmontese cow's milk cheese, semi-soft and earthy, made in the Alps. Each valley has its own toma.

🇮🇹Piedmont, Italy

Tomino

Small soft cow's milk cheese from Piedmont, often eaten grilled or wrapped in prosciutto and baked. Mild and creamy when fresh.

🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Tomme de Savoie

Mild grey-rinded cheese from Savoie, supple and versatile.

🇫🇷Occitanie, France

Tomme des Pyrénées

Tomme Des Pyrenees is a named French cheese associated with Occitanie, recognized for its own rind, aging, and milk character.

🇨🇭Vaud, Switzerland

Tomme Vaudoise

A small soft cows' cheese with a bloomy white rind, eaten young and mild, or breaded and fried until it collapses.

🇪🇸Extremadura, Spain

Torta del Casar Cheese

Queso Torta Del Casar

Creamy raw-sheep cheese from Extremadura, protected PDO.

🇧🇦Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Travnik Cheese

Travnički sir

White brined sheep's cheese matured in wooden barrels or skins on the Vlašić mountain pastures above Travnik, salty and crumbly.

🇸🇮Slovenia

Trnič

Salted, dried curd cheese shaped into a small breast-like cone and decorated with carved wooden stamps, made only by herders on Velika Planina.

🇹🇷Turkey

Tulum Peyniri

A traditional Turkish cheese aged in animal skin bags (tulum), typically made from sheep or goat milk. The aging process in skin produces a crumbly, tangy, and complex cheese. The Erzincan variety is the most famous, with a Slow Food Ark of Taste designation.

🇭🇷Međimurje, Croatia

Turoš

Traditional cheese from Međimurje region rolled into a pointed cone shape, often smoked or aged, a distinctive regional specialty.