Double Eleven is coming, how can you not buy some small snacks to treat yourself! Huan Huan ordered a few bags of milk lumps and can't wait to taste them now. Milk lump is a traditional snack of nomadic people in northwest China and a kind of cheese. In Europe and the United States, where animal husbandry is developed, the varieties of cheese are more diverse, so which cheese is the best to eat? Let the latest 2021 "World Cheese Awards" tell you the answer~
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On Wednesday, the 2021-2022 World Cheese Competition came to an end in the northern Spanish city of Oviedo. The competition is the largest cheese competition in the world and has been successfully held for 33 years so far this year. A total of 4,079 cheeses from more than 40 countries on five continents participated in the judging panel, and the jury consisted of more than 250 professionals, including cheesemakers, food scientists, cheese retailers, buyers and more. According to the selection rules, the judges in groups of 3 selected the color, texture, consistency, taste and other aspects of the cheese, and after several rounds of screening, the champion was finally selected. The cheese that won the crown this time was a soft goat cheese called "olavidia", what is so special about it that it can beat a number of opponents to come out on top? Read on and you'll know.
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Oravidea is produced by the artisan cheese brand quesos & besos, a small cheese producer located in a small city in southern Spain with just 6 employees. "We've been making cheese for less than 5 years and never imagined we could win the world's most authoritative cheese award so quickly. Everything we do stems from the love of family, and we want to incorporate the emotion and temperature of homemade cheese into all our products. Sylvia Perez, the head of cheese and kiss, said excitedly.
"The World Cheese Awards were established more than 30 years ago to promote the products of small handmade cheese producers, and I am delighted to see a small family-run cheese business once again receive the highest accolade." World Cheese Competition organizer John Falland said.
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Jason Zinz, a judge from the UK, said of Oravidian cheese as "its novel appearance, rich taste, and creamy texture, and more rarely, it is full and warm." "In the milky white lining of Oravidian cheese, there is a gray-black line, which is also its unique identity.
In the final judging, a total of 16 cheeses were shortlisted. The 16 judges raised the 1-10 score card in turn to score each cheese, and Oravidian cheese was last in order, but miraculously received a high score of 103 points, surpassing the previously ranked first-ranked fromagerie berthaut to win the competition.
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Originally from France, Bertautte cheese is a soft cheese washed with dregs-stuffed brandy spirits, cut through its wheat-colored rind, and inside is a condensed milky thick cheese flow texture with a mellow taste. This time, it received a rating of 98 points, ranking second.
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Due to the impact of the epidemic, the 2020 "World Cheese Competition" could not be held as scheduled. A year back, the 2019 World Cheese Competition was held in Bergamo, Italy, and the cheese that won the first place that year was also a dark horse - rogue river blue cheese from Oregon. It was also the first time that American cheese had won the championship. Loger River Blue Cheese is made from fruit, vanilla, chocolate and other ingredients, and is wrapped in grape leaves soaked in pear wine.
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