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World’s Most Expensive Cheese Costs $1,000 a Pound, Is Made from Donkey Milk
Original article on OddityCentral.com – a blog on oddities and wacky news http://www.odditycentral.com/
Believe it or not, the world’s most expensive cheese doesn’t come from either cows nor goats, but from donkeys. Made on a farm in Serbia, ‘Pule Cheese’ is made from Balkan donkey milk and costs a hefty $1,000 per pound! It is a crumbly white cheese, apparently popular for its intense flavor and natural saltiness.
The world’s supply of pule comes from a single herd of Balkan donkeys that live on a farm in the Zasavica Special Nature Preserve, Serbia. Part of the reason this cheese is so expensive is that donkeys don’t yield too much milk, and they all have to be milked by hand, three times a day. Apparently, 15 donkeys yield about a gallon of milk, and it takes 3.5 gallons to make a pound of pule cheese. The donkeys of the Zasavica Special Nature Preserve only produce enough milk to make around 200 pounds of pule cheese a year, which makes it very hard to come by.
Source: http://www.odditycentral.com/foods/worlds-most-expensive-cheese-costs-1000-a-pound-is-made-from-donkey-milk.html
Gerry! This is your department….
I was thinking the same thing – frenchies eat all sorts of weird things like snails, eels and pigeons.
And truffles….