Goat's milk cheese
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Goat's milk cheese, goat cheese or chèvre (French for goat) is cheese made from goat milk. In regions where domesticated goats are kept, many kinds of goat's milk cheeses are produced.
Although cow's milk and goat's milk have similar overall fat contents, the higher proportion of medium-chain fatty acids such as caproic, caprylic and capric acid in goat's milk contributes to the characteristic tart flavor of goat's milk cheese. (These fatty acids take their name from the Latin for goat, capra.)
Chèvre is often served hot and is then called chèvre chaud.
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[edit] List of goat's milk cheeses by country
[edit] France
France produces a great number of goat's milk cheeses, especially in the Loire Valley and Poitou, where goats are said to have been brought by the Moors in the 8th century. Examples of French Chèvres include Bucheron, Chabis, Crottin de Chavignol (largest produced goat cheese AOC), Pélardon, Picodon, Pouligny Saint-Pierre, Rocamadour, Sainte-Maure de Touraine, Chabichou du Poitou, Valençay, and Pyramide.
[edit] Spain and Portugal
- Mató is a Catalan fresh cheese made from cow's or goat's milk.
- Castelo Branco is a Portuguese goat's milk cheese.
[edit] United Kingdom
- Pantysgawn is a Welsh goat's milk cheese, and gevrik is a Cornish goat's milk cheese (literally meaning 'little goat').
[edit] Greece
- Greek halloumi, feta, mizithra and anthotyros are traditionally made from a mixture of goat's and sheep's milk. In Greece, goat cheese has a long lasting history from the time of Homer. In the Odyssey he refers to a woman stirring wine with goat cheese to reduce the acidity of the wine.
[edit] Norway
- Brunost, which literally means brown cheese, is made in Norway. It is often sold in the USA as simply Gjetost (goat cheese).
[edit] Italy
[edit] China
- Rubing is a fresh goat cheese from Yunnan Province resembling the Indian paneer.
[edit] External links
- Goat Dairy Foods from the University of California, Davis Dairy Research and Information Center
- Article comparing sheep's milk to cow's milk and goat's milk
- La Chèvre : dairy goat journal (French)
- Goat Milk - Composition, physico-chemical and medicinal properties
- Traditional chevre, from France : A write-up on the Loire River Valley region in France and the quality of its chèvre
