Great Lulu Cheese Fest begins

Lulu Hypermarket Group has organised a week-long Great Lulu Cheese Fest 2016 under title ‘Say Cheese’ from Thursday.

The festival was officially inaugurated by Rachel Ann Morris, renowned cheese and food blogger at Lulu Hypermarket, Al Gharrafa.

The inaugural ceremony was also attended by many dignitaries from renowned corporate business groups. The festival will continue until December 21, 2016.

Lulu Group is conducting Cheese Fest for many years and this year it is organized in a big way with wide varieties of cheese and cheese products on display.

The prominent varieties are: Old Roomy Cheese, Egyptian Istanbuli Cheese, Akawi Cheese, Fresh Low Salt Soft Cheese, Danish Feta Cheese, Danish Mozarella Cheese, Danish Blue Cheese, Kashkaval Cow Cheese, String Cheese, French Brie Cheese, Butter Block, Edam Ball, Gouda Lofes, Italian Cheese, Dutch Calora Low Fat Cheese, Butch Hommage Goat Cheese, Turkish Labneh, English Lancashire Cheese, Salut Cheese, English Mature Cheddar Cheese, Double Gloucester Cheese, French Cheese, Manchego Cheese, Red Hot Medican Cheese, Red Leicester Cheese, Baby Blue Stilton Cheese, Cambozola Cheese, Dolcelatte Cheese, Gorgonzola Cheese, White Cheshire Cheese, White Stilton Cheese, Shirevale Stilton with Mango & Ginger, English Maid Cheddar Cheese, Cornish Yarg Cheese, Emental Block Cheese, Swiss Emmental Cheese, Swiss Gruyere Cheese, Italian Grana Padano Cheese, Parmigiano Reggiano Cheese, Italian Baby Parmesan Cheese, Fat Free Cheese, American Cheese, Turkish Baguette Cheese, German Cheese, Canadian Cheese, Australian Cheese, New Zealand Cheese, Denmark Cheese and White Cheese from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, Syria, Bulgaria, Jordan and Lebanon etc.

The British Cheese Board claims that Britain has approximately 700 distinct local cheeses; France and Italy have perhaps 400 each.