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MedINA, in collaboration with Ethnofest and with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, presents a short documentary about the importance of cheese in modern Greece and how it is produced on the island of Lemnos. Surpassing even the French in per capita consumption worldwide, the Greeks seem not to live without cheese! Led by feta which dominates in consumption, dozens of types of cheese, both domestic and imported, take center stage on the table. Greece, unlike other European countries, has a tradition of producing cheese from sheep's milk, which has a higher content of protein, fat and solids than cow's milk. In Lemnos one finds a fine list of cheeses, made from goat and sheep milk, with traditional methods that have their roots hundreds of years ago, such as the famous Lemnos basket and melichlor. Before the discovery of refrigerators, melichlor, or melipasto as the old people call it, had a huge symbolic and exchange value, which it maintains even today; it was a good that helped the people of Limnius to survive. More information: https://med-ina.org/el/project/aili-p...