Sakura cheese

Sakura cheese Sakura Chīzu (桜チーズ, literally "Sakura (Cherry Blossom) Cheese")) is a soft cheese created in Hokkaidō, Japan. This cheese is a creamy white, and is flavored with mountain cherry leaves, and accented with pickled cherry blossom flowers; 'Sakura' means "cherry blossom" in Japanese, and is recognized as a symbol of Japan and Japanese culture.

It is the first widely acclaimed Japanese cheese, as the vast majority of cheeses in general were a European/Mediterranean phenomenon. It has the rare distinction of winning a gold medal^[1] at the Mountain Cheese Olympics in Appenzell, Switzerland, which normally favors Swiss, Italian, or French cheeses almost exclusively for awards. The medal was in the "soft cheese" category.

See also

• Sakuramochi
• Sakurayu
• List of cheeses

References

• Hurt, Jeanette; Ehlers, Steve (2008). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cheeses of the World. DK Publishing. p. 206. ISBN 978-1-4406-3618-9. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
• Feldman, Susan (2012). The Answer Machine. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. p. 102. ISBN 978-1-60845-934-6. Retrieved 15 November 2017.