The affiliation “Siera klubs” has calculated that over 20 years, cheese consumption in Latvia has greater than tripled. This development is especially attributable to the truth that cheese consumption habits have modified, and now we have realized that cheese with bread just isn’t the one solution to eat this product.
Cheese consumption in Latvia has been rising slowly for the reason that early 2000s, and now each resident of Latvia eats nearly as a lot of this dairy product yearly as residents of the nation of well-known cheese producers – the Italians.
Final yr, every resident of Latvia ate a median of 23 kilograms of cheese. 22 years in the past it was solely 6.7 kilograms per individual, that’s, greater than 3 times much less.
“2002, how did we eat cheese? Place a slice of cheese on the bread and eat. Now, open a recipe on Google and there will certainly be cheese on this recipe. Wherever attainable – cheese, cheese in desserts, there is no such thing as a meals the place we can’t discover a place for cheese,” says Vanda Davidanova, head of the Sierra Klubs affiliation.
As the general public’s urge for food has elevated, our dairies have additionally elevated manufacturing.
In addition they set new information for the amount of cheese manufacturing.
“The outcomes of the primary half of this yr are nonetheless unknown. Nevertheless, final yr’s outcomes are glorious. Once more, final yr we produced 17% extra cheese than the yr earlier than. Amongst them there may be additionally some Yanov cheese, which is nearly 60 thousand tons of cheese,” says Davidanova.
Latvian is a conservative uncooked foodist
Latvians are conservative of their selection of cheese, because the producers themselves say. Though in addition they attempt to adapt to international developments – they produce exhausting cheeses and experiment with flavors, however patrons are at all times extra prepared to decide on acquainted merchandise, for instance, “Tilsit”, “Dutch” or processed cheese.
The director of the Jaunpils pienotava manufacturing unit, Vieturs Krylovs, says: “We eat what we eat each day, the primary product is what we ate and what we’re used to.” I need to strive one thing new, however the foundation is similar – the identical conventional cheeses. Traditions change, however the outdated ones, the identical Yanov cheese, cross by means of the years.”
As well as, producers imagine that Yanov cheese, which is a singular and inimitable product for Latvia, must be on retailer cabinets all yr spherical, and never simply throughout Ligo. Store house owners usually are not prepared for this, as a result of out of season the demand for Yanov cheese is insignificant.
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2024-06-24 03:06:00
