Every cheese

Vaud / Jura, Switzerland

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

Berry / Loire, France

A truncated ash-covered pyramid, allegedly flattened by Napoleon.

Vermont, United States

Made only in summer, aged in a cave dug into a Vermont hillside.

Thise, Jutland, Denmark

Aged in cellars that take in North Sea air, and it tastes like it.

Burträsk, Västerbotten, Sweden

Sweden’s one great hard cheese, made in a single dairy nobody can replicate.

Somerset, Dorset, Devon & Cornwall, England

The real thing: cloth-bound, cave-aged, and nothing like a plastic block.

North Yorkshire, England

Cistercian in origin, saved from closure in the 1990s by a cartoon.

Burgundy, France

Washed in grape brandy until the rind glows orange and the room objects.