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They only seem to be interested in French cheese.

What a pity... There are so many great non-French cheeses...

There are, but unless I'm mistaken no country has even close to the same amount of "great cheeses", so might as well start there.

Switzerland disagrees.

Canada concurs

Switzerland can disagree as much it wants, it doesn't make the fact less true.

The UK disagrees

UK produces more varieties. Of course it depends what "great cheese" is defined as - naming is a lot looser in the UK - but a cheese DB without UK (and definitely Italy too) is missing a lot.

Sure, but quantity does not equal to quality.

I doubt there are many of those named varieties that anyone would truthfully say are low-quality produce by definition, though. There is just a rich, long history of cheesemaking and a wide variety of different cheeses.

Developer here. As a french I only had access to french cheesemaker, so my database if majority of french cheese

You have to knwo that most French cheese make WONT sold cheese from other country. If you want italian cheese, you need to go to Italian cheese maker and if you wan cheeddar, you go to mark and spencer :D

Thus most of my dataset are very local french cheese

What about Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?

"great cheeses" is rather subjective... Wikipedia (and my personally biased experience confirms) states who has got the most cheese variety:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian_cheeses

I would argue that it is more probable to find more "great cheeses" where you have many different varieties.

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