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 reece is a country where different cheese types are produced with the most traditional and qualitative way.The largest cheese production comes from Northern Greece and the mountainous areas throughout the country. Despite its small size and the relative small number of stockbreeders, Greece was always an important exporter of cheese as produces in excess a large variety of qualitative cheeses, most of them famous to the whole world.
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 amed Greek cheeses like feta, kaseri, kefalograviera, manouri, myzithra, kefalotyri, anthotyro, xynotyri, ladotyri, anevato, batzos etc. are exported throughout the International market.
The long lasting tradition in cheese making comprises the best external evidence for the quality of the Greek cheese as a whole.
History of the Greek Cheese
 t is very likely that Greece was the country where took place for the very first time in human history the cheese production as a lot of unwritten resources and ancient Greek literature affirm that the art of cheese production has been existed in Greece since 4,000 BC.
The oldest Greek cheeses are the feta and the kaseri (kaser).
Feta, the quintessential Greek brined cheese and kaseri are probably the oldest cheeses in the world also having an age of more than 6,000 years.
 eta was created by the need to be resolved the problem that without refrigeration cheese spoiled easily. One of the only ways to preserve cheese was to preserve it with salt. Feta is stored in braine and will not spoil easily. The first written references of cheese making come from the Homeric epics as Homer clearly describes the production of brined cheese like feta and semi-hard cheese like kaseri.Since then, the Greek cheese is an integral part of the Greeks nutrition.During the times until our days a lot of cheese types were created in Greece
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