List of cheeses
This is a list of cheeses by place of origin.
Africa
Egypt
Mauritania
South Africa
Kenya
- Andari cheese
Asia
China
India
Japan
- Sakura cheese from Hokkaido, an award-winning soft white flavored with cherry leaves
- Tenshi Cheese made with a combination of sake and sheep's milk
Middle East
- Ackawi cheese
- Basket cheese
- Labneh, a soft cheese made from yoghurt with a slightly sour taste.
- Jameed
- Jibneh Arabieh cheese
- Kenafa cheese
- Naboulsi cheese
- Shanklish
- Syrian cheese
Iran
- Leeghvan
- Tabriz cheese
- Sia mazegi cheese
Israel
- Emek
- Achuza
Nepal
- Yak cheese(Also known as Kijarimipu)
Europe
Austria
- Affineur
- Bergkäse
- Brimsen
- Dachsteiner
- Lüneberg cheese
- Tyrolean grey cheese
Belgium
- Beauvoorde cheese
- Brussels' cheese
- Herve cheese
- Limburger cheese, a soft white cheese with a very strong odor and flavor.
- Maredsous cheese
- Passendale cheese
- Plateau de Herve cheese
- Postel cheese
- Prince-Jean cheese
- Remedou cheese
- Rodoric cheese
- Rubens cheese
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Croatia
- Podravec
- Zdenka cheese
- Dimsi
- Paški sir (Pag island cheese)
- Bilogorac
- Bilogorka
- Picok
- Ribanac
Denmark
- Christian IX cheese or Danbo
- Danbo
- Danish Blue cheese (Dansk blåskimmel(ost))
- Danish tilsit or Tilsit Havarti
- Esrom or Danish Port-Salut
- Havarti cheese or Cream Havarti
- Saga cheese
- Samsoe cheese
Finland
- Aura
- Lappi cheese
- Leipäjuusto (Cheese bread)
- Raejuusto (Finnish cottage cheese)
- Uunijuusto (Baked cheese)
- Oltermanni
- Mustaleima (a type of Emmental
- Mustapekka
- Pohjanpoika (similar to Oltermanni
France
Germany
- Bavaria Blu
- Bördespeck
- Cambozola, a combination of French Camembert and Italian Gorgonzola.
- Emmental (cheese)
- Grünländer
- Harzer cheese
- Handkäse
- Klützer Gold
- Romadur
- Tilsit cheese
- Spundekäs cheese
- Steinbuscher
- Weisslacker
Greece/Cyprus
- Agylotti - (Island of Sifnos)
- Anevato - (Macedonia)
- Aneri - (Cyprus)
- Anthotyro Xero
- Anthotyro Fresco
- Armexia - (Island of Andros)
- Arsenico - (Island of Naxos)
- Batzos - (Macedonia/Thessaly)
- Ble Copanisti - (Island of Naxos)
- Cathoura - (Island of Icaria)
- Cephalaki - (Island of Tinos)
- Cephalograviera - (Macedonia/Thrace/Thessaly/Crete)
- Chloró - (Island of Santorini)
- Corfu - (Corfu)
- Elaiki - (Cassos)
- Feta - (Macedonia/Thrace/Thessaly/etc.)
- Fondina Dodoni - (Epirus)
- Formaella cheese - (Arachova, Thessaly)
- Galotyri
- Graviera - (Macedonia/Thrace)
- Graviera Agrafon - (Thessaly)
- Graviera Kritis - (Crete)
- Graviera Naxou - (Island of Naxos)
- Graviera Tinou - (Island of Tinos)
- Gylomeni - (Island of Sifnos)
- Gylotto - (Island of Folegandros)
- Halloumi (Cyprus)
- Kalathaki - (Island of Limnos)
- Kasseri - (Macedonia/Thrace/Thessaly/etc.)
- Katiki - (Domokos)
- Kefalotyri
- Klotsotyre - (Makedonia)
- Kopanisti
- Ladograviera - (Island of Zacynthos)
- Ladotyri
- Malaca - (Crete)
- Malahti - (Island of Andros)
- Manoura - (Island of Sifnos)
- Manouri
- Megan Kopron cheese
- Metsovella - (Epirus)
- Metsovone - (Metsovo, Epirus)
- Mizithra - (Crete, etc)
- Possia - (Island of Cos)
- Pictogalo
- Petroti - (Island of Andros)
- Petrotto - (Island of Tinos)
- Prentza - (Island of Cephalonia)
- San Michali - (Island of Syros)
- Scotyre - (Island of Ios)
- Sclavotyre - (Island of Tinos)
- Sfela - (Peloponnese)
- Stacca - (Crete)
- Sourotto - (Island of Sifnos)
- Svonzo - (Island of Lemnos)
- Tsalafoutti - (Central Greece)
- Teleme
- Thylicotyre - (Island of Naxos)
- Touloumotyre - (Macedonia)
- Tyrovolia - (Island of Myconos)
- Urtha cheese - (Epirus)
- Victoria
- Xanadu
- Xynomizithra - (Crete, Island of Myconos)
- Xynotyre - (Island of Myconos)
- Zirozoulli - (Crete)
- Zipouro cheese (with grapelike liquor) - (Arachova, Thessaly)
Hungary
- Balaton Cheese
- Lajta Cheese
- Liptauer
- Trappista cheese
Ireland
- Ardrahan cheese
- Cashel Blue cheese
- Coolea cheese
- Cooleeney cheese
- Corleggy cheese
- Desmond cheese
- Dubliner cheese
- Durrus Cheese
- Doolin cheese
- Gabriel cheese
- Gubbeen cheese
- Kilcummin cheese
- milleens cheese
- Mizen cheese
- Poulcoin cheese
- St Brigid cheese
- Waterford cheese
- Braghe Cheese
Italy
See also List of Italian PDO cheeses and the longer List of Italian cheeses
- Asiago cheese
- Bel paese cheese
- Burrata
- Caciocavallo cheese
- Casciotta d'Urbino cheese
- Casu modde cheese
- Fiore Sardo / Pecorino Sardo
- Fontina cheese
- Gorgonzola cheese
- Grana Padano cheese
- Joddu
- Mascarpone cheese
- Montasio cheese
- Mozzarella
- Parmigiano Reggiano
- Pecorino Romano cheese
- Pecorino Toscano cheese
- Provolone cheese
- Quagliato
- Ricotta cheese
- Robiola Lombardia cheese
- Robiola Piemonte cheese
- Stracchino cheese
- Taleggio cheese
Malta and Gozo
- Gbejna (Ġbejna)
Netherlands
- Amsterdam
- Edam
- Frisian cheese
- Gouda and Smoked Gouda
- Leerdammer
- Leyden cheese
- Maasdam
- Roomano
- Spitse cheese
Norway
- Gamalost
- Geitost cheese
- Graddost cheese
- Jarlsberg cheese
- Nøkkelost cheese
- Norvegia cheese
- Snøfrisk cheese
- Pultost cheese
- Balsfjord cheese
- Ingers Blå
- Camenås
- Jaktost
Poland
Portugal
- Azeitão
- Cabreiro de Castelo Branco
- Castelo Branco
- Évora
- Queijo da Serra
- Queijo fresco
- Rabaçal
- Requeijão
- Saloio
- Santarém
- Serpa
- Ilha
- Nisa
- Terrincho
Romania
Russia
Serbia
- Kačkavalj
- Sjenički cheese
- Sremski cheese
- Švapski cheese
Slovakia
Spain
- Burgos cheese
- Cabrales cheese (Asturias)
- Cantabria cheese
- Cerdanya cheese
- Drunken Goat cheese
- Garrotxa cheese
- Idiazabal cheese (Basque)
- L'Alt Urgell cheese
- Mahón cheese
- Majorero cheese
- Manchego cheese (La Mancha, Castile-La Mancha)
- Maó cheese (Minorca, Balearic Islands)
- Mató cheese (Catalonia)
- Murcia cheese
- Murcia al vino
- Palmero cheese
- Picón Bejes-Tresviso
- Queso de la Palma
- Quesucos de Liebana
- Roncal cheese
- Ronkari cheese (Basque)
- Serana cheese
- Serrat cheese (Pallars, Catalonia)
- Tetilla cheese (Galicia)
- Torta del Casar
- Tupí cheese (Catalonia)
- Valdeon
- Zamorano cheese
Sweden
- Baron (cheese)
- Billinge (cheese)
- Blå Gotland
- Drabant
- Grevé
- Gräddost
- Herrgårdsost
- Hushållsost
- Kvibille Cheddar
- Kvibille Gräddädel
- Kryddost
- Prästost
- Raketost
- Riddarost
- Räkost
- Stureost
- Svecia
- Västerbottensost
- Wästgöta Kloster
Switzerland
- Appenzeller
- Büsciun da cavra
- Emmental (Emmentaler), sometimes known in the U.S. as Swiss cheese
- Gruyère (AOC, western Switzerland)
- L'Etivaz (AOC, Alps and Prealps vaudoises)
- Raclette
- Sbrinz (AOC, central Switzerland)
- Tete de Moine (AOC, Jura)
- Tilsiter Switzerland
- Tomme vaudoise
- Vacherin Fribourgeois (AOC, western Switzerland)
- Vacherin Mont d'Or (AOC, north-western Switzerland)
- Schabziger, known in the U.S. as Sapsago
United Kingdom
North America
Canada
- Amster Dammer (British Columbia)
- Balderson's Cheddar (Ontario)
- Baron (Quebec)
- Bleu Bénédictin (Quebec)
- Bleu L'Ermite (Quebec)
- Bleubry (Quebec)
- Bocconcini (Ontario)
- Brie Manoir (Quebec)
- Brie L'extra Double Crème (Quebec)
- Brie Vaudreuil (Quebec)
- Brie Chevalier Fines Herbes (Quebec)
- Brittania (Quebec)
- Camembert de Madame Clément (Quebec)
- Cantonnier (Quebec)
- Cheddar âgé au Porto 10 ans (Québec)
- Damablanc (Quebec)
- Douanier, Le (Quebec)
- Dragons Breath (Nova Scotia)
- Fétard (Québec)
- Frère Jacques (Québec)
- Friulano
- Gouda Coureur des Bois (Quebec)
- Gouda Old (British Columbia)
- Gouda Old Cheese (Ontario)
- Kingsberg (Quebec)
- Leoni-Grana Parmesan (Alberta)
- Mamirolle (Quebec)
- Medium Cheddar (Nova Scotia)
- Miranda (Quebec)
- Mont Saint-Benoît (Quebec)
- Mozzarella Prestigio (Quebec)
- Noyan (Quebec)
- Oka (Quebec)
- Pied-de-Vent (Quebec)
- Provolone Sette Fette (Ontario)
- Raclette des Appalaches (Quebec)
- Raclette Fritz (Quebec)
- Raclette Griffon (Quebec)
- Riopelle de l'Isle, Le (Quebec)
- Saint-Fidèle (Quebec)
- Saint-Paulin Québécois (Quebec)
- Saint-Paulin Anco (Quebec)
- Smoked Monterey Jack (Manitoba)
- Tomme Québécoise (Quebec)
- Trevisano (Ontario)
- Valbert (Quebec)
- Verdelait Cracked Pepper (British Columbia)
- Victor et Berthold (Quebec)
Mexico/Central America
- Añejo cheese
- Añejo Enchilado cheese
- Asadero cheese or Chihuahua cheese
- Cotija cheese or "Queso Añejado"
- Criollo cheese
- Jalapeño cheese
- Oaxaca cheese or "Quesillo"
- Panela cheese
- Queso Blanco (White cheese)
- Queso Fresco (Fresh cheese)
- Requeson
Nicaragua
United States of America
South America
Argentina
Brazil
- Catupiry
- Minas (a. k. a. "Queijo Minas Padrão", "Queijo Frescal" and "Queijo Curado")
- Reino
- Coalho
- Requeijao
- Brazilian Butter Cheese (Queijo Manteiga/Da Terra)
- Prato
Colombia
- Queso campesino (farmer's cheese from highland cows milk)
- Queso costeño (coastal cheese)
- Quesillo (literally "little cheese" is a commercial cheese made with cow milk)
Chile
- Chanco
- Gauda
- Mantecoso
Venezuela
- Guyanés cheese
- Telita
- Queso de Año
- Queso de Cabra
- Queso de Mano
- Queso Palmita
- Venezuelan Beaver Cheese, a fictitious cheese referred to on Monty Python's Flying Circus
Oceania
Australia
- Kervella Affine
- Cheddam
- Jindi Brie
- Roaring 40s blue cheese
- Devil's Dance Blue Cheese
New Zealand
- Kapiti
- Whitestone
Other
- Farmer cheese (many local varieties)
- Venezuelan Beaver cheese (fictional cheese immortalised in Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch)
- Cottage cheese (Many local varieties)
The following cheeses remain unclassified. Can anyone help out?
- Duncan Drake Bleu cheese
- St. Joseph Sweet cheese
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