6 cheeses

Appenzell, Switzerland

Washed in a herb-and-wine brine whose recipe is a genuine trade secret.

Emmental, Bern, Switzerland

The one with the holes — carbon dioxide, from a bacterium, over months.

Fribourg, Switzerland

No holes. Whatever the cartoons told you, that is Emmentaler.

Valais, Switzerland

A cheese named after the act of scraping it off the fire onto a plate.

Bernese Jura, Switzerland

Shaved into rosettes with a hand-cranked blade, because slicing ruins it.

Vaud / Jura, Switzerland

Only made in winter, only sold in a spruce box, only eaten with a spoon.