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Edam cheese market season opens

Summer Wednesdays in Edam, when the round cheeses are brought by boat and cart to the old cheese weigh house.

A tile drawn for this day, not a photograph.

Cheeses for Edam cheese market season opens

Edam's cheese market runs on Wednesday mornings in July and August, at the Kaasmarkt beside the cheese weigh house of 1778. Farmers once brought their round cheeses into town by boat along the canals and by horse and cart, and the summer market reenacts that trade, with porters, weighing and handjeklap. Edam cheese is a semi-hard cow's-milk cheese moulded into a ball; it is sold with a yellow coating at home and, for export, with the red wax that made it known across the world. The first market of the season is opened by a guest who rings the bell.

The cheeses

EdamThe ball-shaped cheese, yellow at home and red-waxed for export.
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Written by the EveryCheese desk with AI assistance. Background: "Edam" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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