12 Kinds of Cheeses You Should Know About
7. Roquefort
This cheese was invented in France and is made from sheep’s milk. The blue pockets of mold that dot the cheese are colonies of the mold Penicillium roquefort, found naturally in the caves of Roquefort, France. It has a moist, crumbly, sharp, sweet and nutty flavor from the yeast with distinct grassiness from the sheep’s milk
8. Emmental
This Swiss origin cheese has huge holes in it which are almost the size of walnuts and is of the hard variety. It is said to be one of the most difficult cheeses to be produced because of its complicated hole-forming fermentation process. The cheese tastes delicious with a glass of wine such as Jura Blanc.
9. Feta
One of the most loved cheeses of the world is Feta. Made from goat or sheep’s milk, this Greek origin cheese is a pickled curd cheese that has a salty and tangy taste enhanced by the brine solution. The texture depends on the age which can be extremely creamy or crumbly dry.
10. Monterey Jack
Commonly used in Mexican and Spanish cuisine, this tasty cheese is a tad different from the other cheeses as unlike those cheeses, this one is not of European origin. It can be called as the true ‘American’ cheese since it originated in the Mexican Franciscan friars of Monterey, California.
11. Swiss
When talking of cheese, how can we forget the milky land of Switzerland and its world famous Swiss cheese? It is identified as the cheese with a smooth solid yellow texture with big round holes. Its flavor is mild, sweet and nut-like which is savory but not very sharp.
12. Blue veined
Also known as blue cheese thanks to its color, this cheese may put off some people owing to its smell. If you remove the thought of real bacteria present in it, this cheese is a very flavorsome thing to eat. The blue color comes from the mold that is deliberately formed during the creation process inside the cheese.
