Do you like butter? So I tell you that throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Ireland was the largest butter exporter in northern Europe and America. Ireland dominated the butter market in the same way that Holland dominated the cheese market then. By the end of the XNUMXth century, approximately two-thirds of all butter made in Ireland was shipped from Cork and Waterford to continental Europe and from there to America.
With so much butter and milk the Irish already had a good tradition in cheese making but for some reason during that time the manufacturing was declining and from a large production it went to a much smaller production that only the English and Scottish settlers followed. By the XNUMXth century, the taste for good cheese had almost disappeared. But today the situation is different and the Emerald Isle has a great selection of cheeses and there are many family farms that have returned to their roots and make some cheeses. delicatessen great. The green fields feed the cows and they provide unique milk that in turn results in excellent butter and a great variety of cheeses.
Therefore, when you go to Ireland do not stop trying the irish cheese and to buy some in the gift shops. remember the story I just told you and imagine the genesis of that cheese you are tasting.