A Tour Of The World With The Various Names Of Cheese

You may not know how many names of cheese there are until you actually shop for cheese. Especially if you find yourself in a fancy cheese section of a store, or in a liquor store where the cheese is next to the wine selection, you can be faced with entire racks of different cheeses, and from all over the world. Some of the names of cheese are hard to pronounce but its important to know the names if you like cheese, especially so you can order your favorite in a restaurant or deli.

When searching for names of cheese, you are usually faced with French names, as many cheeses come from France. Munster, for example, is a cheese that comes from the Alsace Region of France. It's made from cow's milk and is often used in cooking.

Some Unique Names Pave d'Auge is also a French cheese that comes from Normandy and is also a cow's milk cheese.

Livarot cheese also comes from Normandy and is one of the oldest French cheeses, previously called meat of the poor.

Camembert cheese has been called the national cheese of France.

Tomme Crayeuse is a French cheese from the Savoy Alps and it's a delicate cheese made from cow's milk.

That's just to name a few of the names of cheese, and just ones that come from France. There are so many others, from other countries and parts of the world, that it would be impossible to name them all here. To learn more about cheese, you can pick up any book on the subject or visit the cheese section in your local grocery store. If you're looking for a more exotic form of cheese, you may have to use the internet to order it. Some names of cheese aren't seen except in specialty stores, as they cost a little more than you're everyday cheese.

It's fun to learn about the various names of cheese and it's even more fun to taste them all. You can learn all sorts of things when you research the names of cheese, such as the fact that Valencay cheese, a goat's milk cheese, gets its truncated pyramid shape from none other than Napoleon himself. So go on a tour of the world with all the different names of cheese and it's likely that you'll never look at cheese the same way again.