List of Words Derived From Toponyms - Cheese

Cheese

  • Ackawi
  • American cheese, a common name for processed cheese.
  • Asiago after Asiago, the plateau and town in northern Italy where it was first made
  • Aveyron(nais)
  • Brie after the Brie region in Île de France, where it was first made
  • Caerphilly after Caerphilly, a town in Wales
  • Camembert (cheese) after Camembert, Orne in France
  • Cheddar after Cheddar in Somerset, England where it was originally made
  • Cheshire after Cheshire, a county in England
  • Colby after Colby, Wisconsin where it was first made
  • Danbo cheese after Denmark
  • Derby cheese after Derbyshire a county in central England
  • Dubliner after Dublin, Ireland
  • Dunlop after the town of Dunlop in Ayrshire, Scotland
  • Edam after town of Edam in the Netherlands
  • Emmental after Emmental, the name of a valley in Switzerland where it was originally made
  • Double Gloucester cheese after Gloucester cattle, originally from Gloucester in England
  • Gorgonzola after Gorgonzola, a village in northern Italy
  • Gouda after the town Gouda in the Netherlands where originally made
  • Gruyère after Gruyère, a district in Switzerland where first made
  • Jarlsberg after the town Jarlsberg in Norway
  • Lancashire cheese after Lancashire in England
  • Lappi after Lapland region of Finland
  • Leicester cheese after Leicester in England
  • Limburger after Limburg, a former duchy of Lorraine
  • Manchego after La Mancha Spain
  • Molbo, from the Mols peninsula in Jutland, Denmark
  • Monterey Jack, from Monterey, California (not Monterrey, Mexico)
  • Morbier
  • Munster after town Munster, Haut-Rhin in Alsace region of France
  • Nablusi
  • Neufchâtel, from Neufchâtel-en-Bray, the part of Normandie where it originates
  • Oaxaca Oaxaca De Juarez, a state and city in Mexico
  • Parmesan, from Parma, Italy
  • Roma(no) after Rome, Italy
  • Roquefort after a village in southern France
  • Samsø after the island of Samsø in Denmark
  • Stilton after Stilton, a village in England where it was first sold
  • Swiss after Switzerland
  • Tilsit after a town in East Prussia (now Sovetsk, Russia) where it was first produced
  • Wensleydale cheese after Wensleydale in North Yorkshire, England

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Famous quotes containing the word cheese:

    “Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat’s cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    “Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.”
    —Alan Coren (b. 1938)

    “I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.”
    —Edward T. Hall (b. 1914)