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Mature Spanish-style blue cheese with blue-green veining and a small cut piece on an ivory plate.
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Spanish-style blue cheese

A moist blue cheese inspired by Cantabrian styles, made with pasteurized milk, a lactic starter and Penicillium roqueforti, then ripened in two stages.

Cantabria, Spain · Modern adaptation
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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
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Creamy Brie wedge and a smaller slice with white bloomy rind on an ivory plate.
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Brie, cream-enriched

A cream-enriched Brie with a white bloomy rind and a softening center, made from pasteurized milk with lactic and surface cultures.

Brie, Île-de-France, France · Modern adaptation
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Illustrative Baby Swiss-style cheese wheel and wedge with small, evenly scattered eyes.

Baby-Swiss-style cheese

A washed-curd cheese with propionic bacteria, warmed by hot water in two steps and then held in a warm room for weeks so the bacteria can form its holes.


Dairy
Illustrative editorial image of plain soft kefir cheese in a ceramic bowl with cloth-draining context behind it.

Kefir cheese, household cloth method

A soft cheese made by setting aside part of the day's milk kefir, draining it in a cloth and salting it through the evening, ready the next morning.

Italy
Dairy
Pale koumiss in a clear drinking glass, with a small milk pitcher beside it.
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Koumiss (pasteurized mare milk)

Koumiss is a sour, lightly alcoholic mare-milk drink made by lactic bacteria and yeasts. This technical method uses pasteurized milk, a previous-batch starter and staged cooling.

Kazakhstan · Modern method
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Milk kefir in a glass, with a milk pitcher and kefir grains beside it.

Milk kefir

Milk kefir is a tangy fermented drink made with reusable grains of bacteria and yeasts. Grain fermentation can give the milk a light fizz and some alcohol.

Eastern Europe · Traditional method
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A glass of creamy white Khurunga beside a small pitcher, with a light foam and fine bubbles.
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Khurunga (Buryat fermented milk)

Khurunga is a traditional Buryat fermented milk made with a kept mixed bacteria-and-yeast starter, giving a sour, lightly alcoholic and often fizzy drink that is also the base for milk spirit and curds.

Republic of Buryatia · Traditional method
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North African matured salted butter (smen) in a crock, with a spoonful showing its thick, spoonable form.
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Smen

North Africa's matured butter: soured milk churned, the butter washed, heavily salted and left for months until lipolysis turns it into a pungent, cheese-like seasoning used a spoonful at a time.

Morocco · Traditional method
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Pale, lightly foaming Mongolian airag in a clear glass cup and pitcher, with fresh mare’s milk set separately beside it.
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Airag

Airag is Mongolia’s fermented mare’s-milk drink, traditionally churned with saved starter in a reusable cowhide khokhuur.

Mongolia
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Fresh soft kefir cheese in a white bowl with a butter knife drawing a creamy curl.
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Kefir cheese (cold-strained)

The creator’s written method strains 700 mL kefir through tight cloth for 24 hours in a refrigerator and reports 240 g finished cheese.

Modern method
· Dairy
Plain softly set viili in an ivory bowl, with a small milk jug behind and no utensils.

Viili

Viili is a Finnish cultured milk with a soft set and, in its western form, a stretchy texture. This small recurring batch uses a spoonful of previously cultured viili.

Finland · Modern method
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