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In total, there are seven municipalities participating in this initiative |
The cheese has carried the day in Cartagena this morning with a commented tasting is organized within the big week of this product in the region. Fact is that our city is one of the seven municipalities in landing this event to know the dairies appellation.
Up to 40 people attended this morning at the seminar held today at the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center and learned a little more about this product and how they taste it.
So receiving a lecture from some experts in this field and smell the cheese to wine, cured and fresh.
One of them is La Yerbera, which is made ​​in Cartagena itself and, hence, its nickname, cheese of the Mar Menor. This is an original, intense, pleasantly acidic, aromatic and deeply Mediterranean flavor, identified by its rural character, and qualified as the president of the cooperative, Antonio Madrid, who attended this meeting, as the mayor of Women, Clara Hall.
The characteristic of cheese designation of origin in the region is that it is made ​​from milk of goat Murcia in one of the dairies that have this certificate, commented Eduardo Haba, Technical Regulatory Council of Murcia Cheese.
Murcia, Calasparra, Caravaca de la Cruz, Bullas, Jumilla and Lorca are other cities that are also involved in Cheese Week with tastings, commented tastings, lectures, contests for children and even a gastronomic dish in which each of a menu is made with cheese.
This initiative discloses this prestigious product of the region, whose production has increased to 13.5% in 2013 over the previous year, reaching a total of 446,000 kilos.
75% of the host production quality certification Murcia cheese exported in the United States and has the largest foreign market.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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