If you like the cheese and interested with the details of chesse, come to Alkamar, Netherlands. Cheese
or "kaas" in Dutch made the Dutch with recipes that are hundreds of
years this has a neutral flavor and is sweeter than white cheese other
nations. Therefore, it feels a lot like other nations. Since medieval times (years 1700-1800) Dutch cheese has been exported. No wonder that other nations recognize as the domestic Dutch cheese. In the 1970s, the Netherlands is the country's largest cheese pengeskpor. Since then the technique of making continues to be developed, but the
taste and texture of Dutch cheese to be maintained or inconsistent and
can last longer due to be exported.
Alkmaar is one of four other chesse market include Gouda, Edam and Hoorn. Alkmaar are like traditional merchant cheese markets as operated in the post-medieval period, re-enacted during the summer months for tourists. The shows are today surrounded by stalls selling all things traditional to the Dutch culture, including cheese.
The market transaction started when cheese farmers traditionally brought their cheeses to the market square in town to sell. Teams (vemen) of official guild cheese-porters (kaasdragers), identified by differently coloured straw hats associated with their forwarding company, carried the farmers' cheese on barrows, which typically weighed about 160 kilograms. Buyers then sampled the cheeses and negotiated a price using a ritual system called handjeklap in which buyers and sellers clap each other's hands and shout prices.Once a price is agreed, the porters carry the cheese to the weighing house (Waag), and scale of their company.
Alkmaar, the Netherland chesse market
