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Traditional Gouda, Netherlands

May 16 2008 by Peter Leathley, The Journal

The town of Gouda became a central cheese market in the 17th Century. Some 300 farmers in The Netherlands, most of them in the Gouda region, still produce raw milk farmstead cheese, but their numbers are shrinking, due in part to the abundance of cheap pasteurised imitations.

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