Gouda cheese is a creamy, yellow cow's milk cheese originating from the Netherlands. It is one of the most popular and produced cheeses worldwide. The name is used today as a general term for numerous similar cheeses produced in the traditional Dutch manner.
Gouda cheese
Rounds of Gouda cheese at a Dutch cheese market in Gouda, South Holland
Cheese-porters carrying cheeses are identified by distinct differently coloured straw hats at the cheese market in Gouda.
Smoked Gouda
Gouda is a city and municipality in the west of the Netherlands, between Rotterdam and Utrecht, in the province of South Holland. Gouda has a population of 75,000 and is famous for its Gouda cheese, stroopwafels, many grachten, smoking pipes, and its 15th-century city hall. Its array of historic churches and other buildings makes it a very popular day-trip destination.
Image: 13 06 27 gouda by Ralf R 054
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Image: Gouda, Haven panoramio (9)
City centre of Gouda in 1650, by Joan Blaeu