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Queso herreño ahumado

Valverde, El Hierro, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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Queso herreño ahumado

Food and drink · Valverde, El Hierro, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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A cheese made from cow's, goat's and sheep's milk, traditionally smoked with rockrose, dry fig-tree wood or prickly pear pads, which gives it its rough, dark rind. Its artisan production is concentrated mainly in Isora, in the municipality of Valverde. By mid-2024 the island's cheesemaking associations were processing an application with the Government of the Canary Islands for a Protected Designation of Origin for El Hierro cheese, not yet granted.

solicitud de DOP en trámite en 2024

Photo: CARLOS TEIXIDOR CADENAS (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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