Cheese festival in Adygea

Unlike Europe, Russia lacks a process whereby a product may be designated a locality brand if certain location and production criteria are met. Still there are foods in Russia that use them. One of them is Adygea cheese. To be called that, it should be manufactured by a Republic of Adygea producer with local cow milk and in strict accordance with a certain recipe. Since the 1980s, this type of cheese has been produced in Belarus and Ukraine that fall outside of Russian laws. Still, Adygea’s capital of Maikop holds annual cheese festivals with a fair, competitions, workshops and production (and consumption) displays for the region’s most famous food.