page_title: Cuisine of Carmarthenshire
section_title: Cheese
hierarchical_section_title: Cuisine of Carmarthenshire / Cheese
caption_attribution_description: English: Shirgar, Menyn Cymreig, Welsh salted butter
context_page_description: Known as “The Garden of Wales”, Carmarthenshire is a county of rich, fertile farmland and productive seas and estuaries, that give the county a range of foods that motivate many home cooks and restaurateurs. There is a local tradition in brewing, milling, gathering shellfish from the coasts and in meat production. Carmarthenshire has been described by The Daily Telegraph as a “worthwhile destination for foodies” with the county having a “modest matter of fact excellence”. Carmarthenshire has ambitions to become the premier food-producing county of Wales, based on its strong reputation for first class products. and Carmarthenshire County Council produces its own on-line and hard-copy recipe book called ‘Taste from Carmarthenshire’, for those interested in learning more about the county’s cuisine.
context_section_description: The Farmhouse Cheese Shop, run by John and Patrice Savage-Ontswedder, can be found in Carmarthen Market. They have their own range of Teifi Cheeses and Glynhynod Caerphilly, together with almost all the other cheeses made in West Wales. 
  Teifi Cheese is an organic vegetarian cow's milk cheese with a bright yellow interior and sweet fruity flavour when young. As it ages, the cheese becomes hard and flaky. It is similar to Gouda and can be eaten on its own, or used in recipes where it adds richness and depth. The flavour is influenced by the grasses growing in the Teifi valley.
  John and Patrice Savage-Ontswedder also produce Celtic Promise, a modern vegetarian surface-ripened cow's milk cheese with a semi-soft texture and a moist orange-red rind with a dusting of mould. It is washed in cider brine during ripening and is creamy, rich and yellow with a pungent aroma and piquant taste. This cheese, together with another of their cheeses, known as Saval have been champions at the British Cheese Awards. Celtic Promise complements cider, ale and medium-bodied wines.
  Llanboidy Cheese was made on an organic farm near Llanboidy, it was the only cheese in Europe made from the milk of Red Poll cows, a rare pedigree breed grazing traditional pastures and drinking from the farm well. This gave the cheese a fresh-cut hay aroma and sharp, grassy tang. It was made by hand and allowed to develop and mature in its own rind. It had a smooth, silky texture and robust taste.
  Other Carmarthenshire cheeses include Caws Cenarth and Kid Me Not, both winners of prizes at the British Cheese Awards. Caws Cenarth supplies Perl Las blue organic cheese to England's Twickenham rugby stadium and has also supplied British Airways.
caption: Shirgar, Menyn Cymreig
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