When I lived in Germany I would often eat cheese, cold cuts and fresh bread for breakfast. Tilsit was one of the cheeses that made a great breakfast cheese. Mild and soft, Tilsit is very close to Havarti in taste and texture but usually a short rectangle compared to Havarti's squareness. It has a yellow wax rind that should be removed and not eaten, unless your the kind of person who likes to chew on wax. The name comes from the former name of a town in former eastern Prussia, Tilsit that today lies in Russia with the name Sovetsk. It is not a great cheese but a pleasant one and sometimes that can be the needed thing at the start of a day.

Name: Tilsit
Type of Milk: Cow, Pasteurized
Type: semi-soft
Produced in: Germany
Date Purchased: 12/27/2006
Date Eaten: 12/31/2006
Purchased Where: United States, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, A Southern Season
Price: $8.49/lb.