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Also known as goat's cheese, chèvre, goat's-milk cheese, chevre

cheese made out of the milk of goats

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Subclass of
dairy product
Material used
goat milk
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food energy
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Commons category
Goat's-milk cheeses
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Category:Goat's-milk cheeses
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Encyclopedic overview

Various Goat cheeses Goat cheese on bread Goat cheese, goat's cheese or chèvre (/ˈʃɛv(rə)/ SHEV(-rə); from the French fromage de chèvre [fʁɔmaʒ də ʃɛvʁ] with the same meaning) is cheese made from goat's milk. Goats were among the first animals to be domesticated for producing food. Goat cheese is made around the world with a variety of recipes, giving many different styles of cheeses, from fresh and soft to aged and hard.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “goat cheese” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.