AUSTRIA INITIATES GREAT CHEESE WEEK
■ . ; ■ - - VIENNA.. No means arc being left untried for stimulating the consumption of home agricultural products in, Austria. Following the “Drink More Milk”: campaigns, organised.by tho Milk Products Propaganda Society there comes, in imitation of the United States and Sweden, a special “Cheese Week,’’ in which every attempt will be made to show, on the, one handy, the nutritive value and .comparative .cheapness of cheese as- a food, and bn the other’ the variety and quality of cheeses now produced in Austria. , . Of the 300 varieties of cheese said to ho produced- in- Europe and America, .;4astria : : has -by no moans., produced all; but iiUps't of ‘ thebotter-kno-wns Frqjich, SwisS’ l and Italian cheeses arc made in the country, as well as several-excel-lent Tyrolean brands. The Austrian Emihcntaler, Gervais, and Brie, the “king of-cheesesj” have won especial praise. " Up' to the'present cheese has not proved itself, a popular food, in Austria, the average quota per head being only 2.8 kilos, as compared with the Danish average of 6 kilos and the Swiss of 12. ,
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6668, 23 July 1928, Page 2
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