Graviera cheese

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The Food & Cooking of Greece

By Rena Salaman

Published 2023

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The best graviera is Cretan (called graviera kritis). It is made from sheep’s milk and, when properly aged, is superb. Naxos graviera is milder, while dodoni, made from cow’s milk, is quite sweet. Metsovo has an intriguing flavour and lathotiry mytilinis, aged in olive oil, has an attractive piquant taste.

Traditional Cretan graviera cheese is made from sheep’s milk and has quite a strong, distinctive flavour when it is aged.