Article: Whopping price for Swedish moose cheese at Europe's only moose dairy farm

TOMMY GRANDELL, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
06-23-2004
Dateline: STOCKHOLM, Sweden
It's healthy. It's tasty. And it's expensive.

At 7,500 kronor a kilogram (US$500 a pound) the cheese made of milk from the moose cows "Gullan," "Haelga" and "Juna" is sold to upmarket hotels and restaurants in Sweden. But the delicacy, made in three varieties can also be bought and sampled on site at the "Moose House," a 24-hectare (59-acre) moose dairy farm in Bjursholm, in northern Sweden.

"We hope later on to be able also to export more of the cheese, especially the somewhat sour feta-type, which is laid down in oil and easy to transport," said Christer Johansson, who started the farm seven years ...

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