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4 unusual facts about Egyptian cheese


Egyptian cheese

Cheese was also imported, and the common hard yellow cheese takes its name "Roumy" from the word for "foreign".

Mish is a sharp and salty product made by fermenting cheese for several months in salted whey.

The early Greek author Pherecrates talked of melted cheese, still made in Greece and called saganaki.

Karish is an ancient type of white, soft, lactic cheese made from Laban Rayeb curd.



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