Cheeses

The islands have a great variety of cheeses, and often even the villages on one island will have very different cheeses, since the majority of households produce their own fresh and hard cheeses. Most of the cheeses made by home cooks or shepherds can’t be sold or exported and so are not seen outside the village where they are made. The majority of island cheeses are made from a combination of goat and sheep’s milk, but several cow’s milk cheeses are made on Tinos, Syros, Naxos and a few other islands.