Author Topic: Which Tavernas serve Fresh Mizithra cheese?  (Read 1672 times)

Offline Voloudakis

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Which Tavernas serve Fresh Mizithra cheese?
« on: May 31, 2013, 10:14:55 AM »
We have never seen the popular Mizithra/ Myzithra Cheese on a menu in Plakias. My other half much prefers it to Feta and in Chania Prefecture villages It is everywhere.
I am talking about the fresh variety and not the dried that you can grate like parmesan.
Myzithra is the most widely used cheese in Crete, where feta is a relative newcomer.
Please, please tell us that we can find it on a menu!

Info: Myzithra is available in three varieties: fresh (sweet), sour, and aged:

Fresh myzithra is unsalted and soft, similar to farmer's cheese and ricotta, and is generally sold in egg-shaped balls. It has a pungent aroma and mild flavor.
Sour myzithra, also known as xinomyzithra (ξινομυζήθρα), ksee-no-mee-ZEE-thrah), is made with goat or sheep milk, yeast, and salt.
Aged myzithra (myzithra xeri) is a hard, salty cheese.

It looks like this (cannot understand why we never see it in Plakias)


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Re: Which Tavernas serve Fresh Mizithra cheese?
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2013, 09:38:55 PM »
Ah well, it was worth asking. Guess folks do not eat cheese or do not know what kind they are eating.
Looking at many photographs on Face***k I think I have spotted the cheese in Ton Kzezoni Kafeneion.
So there is hope in the Great Cheese Hunt.
Off to watch Wallace and Gromit.... More cheese Gromit!
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