Well attestedNamed for a product of the place
Havarti
noun · first attested 1952
The cheese is named for a farm, seventy years after the woman who developed it worked there.
A semisoft Danish cow's milk cheese full of small irregular holes.
Record
- Relationship
- Named for a product of the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1952
- Part of speech
- noun
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Holte
- In English
Havarti
Hanne Nielsen ran the Havartigården farm near Holte, north of Copenhagen, in the second half of the nineteenth century and traveled through Europe learning other countries' cheesemaking. What she developed was sold for decades under borrowed foreign names. It was given the name Havarti only in 1952, when Danish cheeses were assigned names of their own.
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Denmark
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