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Cheese towns, markets and caves

26 places where cheese is made, aged, traded and eaten, with a trail idea for each.

Cheese townMarketCaves and cellarsPastureDairy regionCity
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South Asia

City, India, 1 cheeseKolkataThe city of chhena: rosogolla, sandesh and pantua in every neighbourhood sweet shop, and Bandel and Kalimpong cheese in New Market.City, IndiaSuratA Gujarati port city that gives its name to Surti paneer, a soft buffalo milk cheese ripened briefly in its own whey.

East Asia

City, China, 1 cheeseZhangzhou

Central Asia and the Caucasus

City, GeorgiaTbilisiGeorgia's capital, where market halls stack sulguni, guda and tenili and every bakery turns out cheese-filled khachapuri.City, ArmeniaYerevanArmenia's capital, where markets sell braided chechil, brined white cheeses and herbs to wrap in lavash.

Middle East

City, Palestine, 1 cheeseNablusA city of soap, sweets and Nabulsi cheese, the brined white cheese that melts into knafeh.

North Africa

City, Egypt, 1 cheeseDamiettaA Nile delta port that gave its name to domiati, Egypt's salty white cheese, salted in the milk before it sets.

Sub-Saharan Africa

City, EthiopiaAddis AbabaEthiopia's capital, where crumbly ayib is served with kitfo and greens, and kept off the table on fasting days.

Europe

City, Italy, 3 cheesesLodiA Lombard city on the Adda whose rich pastures are linked with the birth of grana cheese and with mascarpone.City, Italy, 2 cheesesBresciaCity, Portugal, 1 cheeseCastelo BrancoCity, Spain, 1 cheeseCataloniaCity, Italy, 1 cheeseCremonaCity, France, 1 cheeseLaonCity, Germany, 1 cheeseMainzCity, Czech Republic, 1 cheeseOlomoucCity, Norway, 1 cheeseOsloCity, Italy, 1 cheeseParmaThe Emilian city of Parmigiano Reggiano and prosciutto, at the heart of Italy's Food Valley.City, Italy, 1 cheeseRagusaA baroque hill city of south-east Sicily, home of Ragusano, the brick-shaped stretched cheese hung in pairs to age.City, Italy, 1 cheeseReggio EmiliaThe second half of the cheese's name: a city whose hills and plain hold some of the oldest Parmigiano Reggiano dairies.City, Finland, 1 cheeseTurkuCity, FranceMarseilleCity, FranceMeaux and the Brie countryThe cathedral city of the Brie plateau east of Paris, home of Brie de Meaux, with Melun's darker Brie to the south.

North America

City, United StatesCaliforniaCity, United StatesNew Orleans

Latin America and the Caribbean

City, Mexico, 1 cheeseOaxacaThe home of quesillo, the string cheese wound into balls, sold in every market and melted into tlayudas.

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