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Azeitão Cheese

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If during winter time or first days in spring we go to certain farms in Arrábida zone, we come upon huge clay pots that stand by the fireplace. According to local tradition it’s in this containers that the sheep raw milk is curdle to get a creamy cheese of this region. It’s told that in the past century only by missing his homeland, Gaspar Henriques de Paiva, brought to Azeitão a shepherd from the region of Beira just to make of his flocks milk a kind of "Serra" cheese, and hardly he knew he was starting the making of one the most appreciated sheep cheese on national level. The Azeitão cheese, as it was called since then has won several prizes, becoming famous all around the country.
No ways, a few families still produce them in artisan cheese-dairies. Setubal, Sesimbra and Palmela are the actual tree subdivisions of district to usufruct the natural resources of Serra da Arrábida that makes Azeitão cheese a singular one . Setubal, Sesimbra and Palmela are the delimited region of this cheese. The abundant pasture and the blessing of a mild climate don’t explain by themselves the truly peculiar flavour of this cheese that someone has defined as having "a rather wild riste of sweet herbs". Only the  know-how and the experience, inheritance of several generations of artisan cheese-makers, can guarantee the perpetuation of Azeitão Cheese characteristics, campaign after campaign.


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