Cheeses

🇳🇱Netherlands

Cheese Soufflé

Kaassoufflé

Thin breaded and deep-fried dough filled with melting cheese, typically Gouda, rectangular or half-moon shape, popular snack.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Cheese Toast Bake

Käseschnitte

Stale bread soaked in white wine or milk, covered with cheese and baked until it bubbles, often topped with ham, a fried egg or stewed fruit.

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Cherni Vit Sirene

Зелено сирене от Черни Вит

Slow Food-protected green-mold sheep’s cheese from Cherni Vit.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Cheshire Cheese

One of England's oldest cheeses, a crumbly, semi-hard cow's milk cheese from Cheshire with a mild, salty, tangy flavour, coloured white or orange with annatto.

🇧🇩Bangladesh

Chhena

ছানা

Cow's milk curdled with acid, drained and kneaded into a soft fresh curd — the base of almost every Bengali sweet.

🇳🇵Nepal

Chhurpi

छुर्पी

Yak or cow milk is cultured, pressed, and dried into a Himalayan cheese that can be soft, firm, or very hard.

🇺🇸United States

Chopped Cheese

A New York City corner-store sandwich of chopped, griddled ground beef mixed with melted cheese on a hero roll.

🇺🇸United States

Colby

A mild, semi-soft American cow's milk cheese with a distinctive open, 'marbleized' texture.

🇫🇷Burgundy, France

Comte

France's most popular AOP cheese, large wheels aged 4-24+ months with complex nutty flavors.

🇭🇺Hungary

Cottage Cheese

Túró

Cottage cheese is a soft Hungarian curd cheese with a crumbly texture and a slightly sour taste.

🇫🇷Centre-Val de Loire, France

Crottin de Chavignol

Small cylindrical goat cheese from Berry, aged from fresh to hard.

🇨🇴Colombia

Cuajada

A Colombian fresh cheese curd, slightly sweet and soft, eaten with panela or used in almojábanas. A rustic dairy snack of the interior highlands.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Cumin Cheese

Komijnenkaas

Dutch cheese flavored with caraway seeds, similar to Leidse but with caraway instead of cumin, a traditional variety.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Curd Cheese

Lietuviškas varškės sūris

Traditional cow's milk curd cheese with a distinctive triangular shape, eaten fresh, baked, dried, or smoked, often with honey.

🇬🇪Georgia

Curd Cheese with Mint

Ნადუღი

Fresh whey curd mixed with mint and wrapped in a sheet of sulguni, sliced into rolls and served cold.

🇬🇪Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Georgia

Dambalkhacho

Დამბალხაჭო

A rare, moldy aged curd cheese from the mountain regions of Tianeti and Pshavi, dried and aged in qvevri for 1-2 months, with an intense, spicy flavour.

🇩🇰Denmark

Danablu

Danish blue cheese, invented in Denmark.

🇧🇹Bhutan

Datshi

དར་ཚིལ།

Fresh, soft, faintly sour cow's-milk cheese made in the house from buttermilk curd, and the base of every dish with datshi in its name.

🇭🇷Croatia

Dinaric Cheese

Dinarski sir

Hard cheese made from cow and goat milk in Dinaric mountain region, crumbly with nutty grassy flavors, a highland specialty.

🇪🇬Damietta, Egypt

Domiati Cheese

جبنة دمياطي

Egypt's most famous white cheese, made from buffalo milk, soft, salty, and slightly crumbly.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Double Gloucester

A hard, annatto-coloured cheese from Gloucestershire with a nutty, buttery, citrusy flavour and a firm, crumbly texture.

🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

Dovedale Cheese

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

🇬🇪Georgia

Dzykka

Dzykka is a thick Ossetian-style Georgian porridge of flour and dairy, served warm as a plain, sustaining bowl.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Džiugas Cheese

Džiugas

A hard cow's milk cheese ripened for at least 12 months, with Protected Geographical Indication status in the EU.

🇧🇪Flanders, Belgium

Echte Loo

Echte Loo is a cheese from Lo-Reninge, rooted in local cooking tradition.

🇪🇨Ecuador

Ecuadorian Queso de Hoja

Queso de hoja

A fresh Ecuadorian cow's-milk cheese pressed in leaves into peelable layers, sold in the highlands and markets.

🇳🇱North Holland, Netherlands

Edam Cheese

Edammer kaas

Semi-hard cheese with mild sweet to piquant flavor depending on maturity, spherical shape with red wax coating, PGI status.

🇲🇳Mongolia

Eezgii

Ээзгий

Curds roasted slowly in their own whey until the milk sugars caramelise and the crumbs turn golden and nutty.

🇨🇭Bern, Switzerland

Emmentaler

A large hard cows' cheese with cherry-sized holes formed by carbon dioxide during ripening, mild and slightly sweet.

🇦🇹Styria, Austria

Ennstaler Steirerkas

Ennstaler Steirerkas is a crumbly Styrian sour-milk cheese with a salty, pungent aroma and dry curd.

🇫🇷Burgundy, France

Epoisses

Pungent Burgundy cheese washed in marc de Bourgogne brandy, creamy and intense.

🇹🇷Erzurum, Turkey

Erzurum küflü civil peyniri

Erzurum kuflu civil peyniri, the blue-moulded string cheese matured in earth pits, is a singular Turkish cheese with protected-origin recognition.

🇪🇷Eritrea

Ethiopian Fresh Cheese

አይብ

Ethiopia's fresh, soft cottage cheese — mild, slightly tangy and crumbly. The classic cooling side for spicy dishes and the essential partner to kitfo, where it tempers the heat of mitmita.

🇹🇷Aegean Region, Turkey

Ezine Peyniri

PDO three-milk white cheese from Çanakkale.

🇬🇷Greece

Feta

Φέτα

Greece's flagship PDO cheese: a brined white cheese of sheep (and up to 30% goat) milk, crumbly and tangy. Used in salads, pies, and baked dishes, a national staple, a cultural icon.

🇳🇴Norway

Flotemysost

Fløtemysost

Cream whey brown cheese, a widely eaten brunost variant.