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Article: Feta is Greek cheese; the rest are imitators.
- Article from:
- Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
- Article date:
- August 30, 2004
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Byline: Laura Werlin
The Olympics may be over, but you can always recapture a taste of Greece with feta.
Through just this one cheese, feta, or fetta (which translates to "slice" in Greek), offers its own slice of Greek history, a window into its storied past. Although there are varying interpretations of the history of feta, including that it may have originated in Italy rather than Greece, and that in fact the Bulgarians may have invented it, it is certain that feta-making began thousands of years ago and quickly became a staple in the Greek diet.
Originally, feta was always made with sheep's milk. Eventually, goat's milk was used to ...
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October 14, 1999 ;
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