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Mountain Cheese - SWITZERLAND
Switzerland has a reputation for producing the finest mountain cheeses in the world, and more than three quarters of these are still made the traditional way from raw milk. Will samples Raclette and learns how it's made, the old fashioned traditional way over a wood fire. His journey takes him on to the pretty town of Gruyere to look at the origins of a cheese whose name literally means "head of a monk." Then it's time to meet the king of Swiss cheese, Emmenthaler and find out just how it gets its holes.Release
2007
Minutes
30
Grade Level
S-C
Format
DVD
Switzerland has a reputation for producing the finest mountain cheeses in the world, and more than three quarters of these are still made the traditional way from raw milk. Will samples Raclette and learns how it's made, the old fashioned traditional way over a wood fire. His journey takes him on to the pretty town of Gruyere to look at the origins of a cheese whose name literally means "head of a monk." Then it's time to meet the king of Swiss cheese, Emmenthaler and find out just how it gets its holes.
This film is part of a series. The series title and other films in this series are listed below.
Cheese Slices - Twenty-One Part Series
- Australian Cheese Pioneers
- Camembert - FRANCE
- Cheddar - ENGLAND
- Cheese Slices - Cheeses of the Alps - FRANCE
- Comte Gruyere And Farmhouse Morbier - FRANCE
- Edam, Gouda - THE NETHERLANDS
- Feta: Food of the Gods - GREECE
- Goats Cheese of Poitou - FRANCE
- Gorgonzola - Cave Ripened Tallegio - ITALY
- Irish Cheese Renaissance, The - IRELAND
- Legend of Roquefort, The - FRANCE
- Massif Central And Auvergne - FRANCE
- Mountain Cheese - SWITZERLAND
- New Farmstead Cheeses Of Northern California - USA
- Ossau Iraty Cheese - THE BASQUE
- Parmigiano Reggiano - Grana Padano - ITALY
- Pecorino - ITALY
- Soft Washed Rind Cheeses - FRANCE
- Spanish Traditional Quesos - SPAIN
- Stilton - The King of English Cheese - ENGLAND
- Vermont Cheese - USA
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