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Casu martzu [1] (Sardinian: [ˈkazu ˈmaɾtsu]; lit. ' rotten/putrid cheese '), sometimes spelled casu marzu, and also called casu modde, casu cundídu and casu fràzigu in Sardinian, is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains live insect larvae ().
This is a list of French cheeses documenting the varieties of cheeses, a milk-based food that is produced in wide-ranging flavors, textures, and forms, which are found in France. In 1962, French President Charles de Gaulle asked, "How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?"
Name Image Region Description Caravane cheese: The brand name of a camel milk cheese produced in Mauritania by Tiviski, [5] a company founded by Nancy Abeiderrhamane in 1987. The milk used to make the cheese is collected from the local animals of a thousand nomadic herdsmen, and is very difficult to produce, but yields a product that is low in lactose.
Pule cheese or magareći sir, is a Serbian cheese made from 60% Balkan donkey milk and 40% goat's milk. [1] [2] The cheese is produced in Zasavica Nature Reserve. Pule is reportedly the "world's most expensive cheese", fetching US$1300 per kilogram.
Valençay cheese, a goat cheese from France. There are many different types of cheese.Cheeses can be grouped or classified according to criteria such as length of fermentation, texture, methods of production, fat content, animal milk, and country or region of origin.
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The list excludes specific brand names, unless a brand name is also a distinct variety of cheese. While the term " American cheese " is legally used to refer to a variety of processed cheese , many styles of cheese originating in Europe are also made in the United States, such as brie , cheddar , gouda , mozzarella , and provolone .
The Italian name of the cheese caciocavallo literally means 'horse cheese' and it is generally thought that the name derives from the fact that two cheese forms are always bound together with rope and then left to mature by placing them a cavallo, i.e. straddling, upon a horizontal stick or branch.