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Two thin, pale Tchoukou dried cheese sheets with subtle mat impressions.
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Tchoukou

Tchoukou, also called Tikomart, is a thin, dry Nigerien cheese made to keep seasonal milk for later use. Documented methods use animal rennet, shape drained curd into sheets and dry it.

Niger
· Dairy
Fresh folded halloumi with faint mat marks and sparse mint flecks on an ivory plate.
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Halloumi, cow-milk method

A firm cow-milk cheese cooked in hot whey, salted and folded with optional mint. This fresh halloumi keeps its shape when grilled or pan-fried.

Cyprus · Modern adaptation
· Dairy
Original illustrative photograph of a hard, mature sheep-milk Graviera wedge with a smooth dry rind and rounded internal eyes, reflecting source-documented traits of the Cypriot method; not a photograph of a specific producer or batch.
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Graviera, Cypriot sheep-milk method

This Cypriot graviera is a hard sheep-milk cheese with a dry rind and round eyes. Its curd is heated, pressed and dry-salted before a long cool ripening.

Cyprus · Traditional method
· Dairy
Illustrative traditional-style sheep-milk Kashkaval: a smooth-rinded semi-hard cylindrical cheese wheel with a uniform pale-yellow interior and one cut wedge.
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Kashkaval, traditional sheep-milk method

Kashkaval is a firm sheep-milk cheese whose acidified curd is worked in hot brine. This large-batch method finishes with repeated dry salting, wax coating and cool ripening.

Bulgaria · Traditional method
· Dairy
White brine-ripened beyaz peynir in two cut blocks on an ivory plate.

Beyaz peynir

Beyaz peynir is a Turkish white cheese matured in brine. Sheep milk, alone or mixed with other milks, gives a close-textured cheese cut into blocks and packed in cans.

Turkey · Traditional method
· Dairy
Smooth pale-golden brine-finished kashkaval block with sliced pieces on a wooden board.
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Kashkaval, brine-finished

A yellow stretched-curd cheese made by acidifying, draining and kneading curd in hot brine. This small-batch kashkaval uses a commercial starter and a brine finish.

Bulgaria · Modern adaptation
· Dairy
Soft white Domiati cheese in a larger portion and small cut piece on an ivory plate.
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Domiati

Domiati is a soft Egyptian white cheese made by salting milk before renneting. It is eaten fresh or ripened in brine, with cow and buffalo milk used in varying proportions.

Egypt · Traditional method
· Dairy
Two small smooth rounds of fresh American Neufchatel-style cheese, one cut to show its moist interior.

Home-style Neufchâtel

Pasteurized milk cultured with buttermilk or yogurt and set with rennet makes this soft, smooth Neufchâtel-style cheese, pressed into small forms and chilled.

New Mexico · Modern adaptation
· Dairy
Soft ivory Altai aarchi beside irregular golden-brown smoked kurut pieces, one broken to show its pale interior.

Aarchi and kurut (Altai dried curd)

A two-stage Altai dairy preparation: sour chegen is heated into soft aarchi, then portions are drained, pressed and traditionally smoked into firm kurut.

Altai Republic
Dairy
Pale crumbly tulum cheese in irregular pieces and crumbs in an ivory bowl.
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Tulum peyniri, yogurt-cultured method

Tulum peyniri is a Turkish cheese traditionally packed into animal-skin bags to mature. This sheep-milk method adds a thermophilic yogurt culture before renneting, draining and dry salting.

Turkey · Traditional method
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A hard pale kefalotyri slab and triangular cut portion on an ivory plate.
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Kefalotyri, Cypriot method

Kefalotyri is a hard sheep-and-goat-milk cheese made in Cyprus as well as Greece. This Cypriot method cooks and presses the curd, then brines, coats and matures the cheese.

Cyprus · Traditional method
· Dairy