Please help me welcome our first guest from the Balkan state of Bulgaria, Kaškaval. I'll call her Kashkaval since I don't know how to pronounce the little smiley face above an 's'. Her name is derived from the Italian provolone-style cheese, Caciocavallo, but this cheese does not taste much like its Italian counterpart. The name can also refer to any yellow sheep's milk cheese in Bulgaria or Macedonia.
The cheese is nothing extraordinary but I like it. Compared to most supermarket cheeses Kashkaval is out of the ordinary. It probably won't fit in on a high-end cheese plate but is a nice everyday sandwich cheese.

Name: Kaškaval or Kashkaval
Type of Milk: sheep's
Type: semi-hard
Produced in: Bulgaria
Date Purchased: 1/28/2007
Date Eaten: 1/30/2007
Purchased Where: United States, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, A Southern Season
Price: $9.99/lb.