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Swiss Alpine Foodways

Mountain

The food of the high pastures: transhumance in early summer and the descent in autumn, cattle, goats and sheep, milk turned to cheese on the alp because it could not be carried down, butter and whey, hay-meadow herbs, berries and mushrooms, dried and smoked meat, dense breads that keep, and a year organised entirely around the altitude the animals are at.

Atlas — where and when

Communities and languages

  • Alpine communities community documented

What is recorded

  • Alpine foodways crosses seven states. Swiss Alpine food is one national share of it, and transhumance, summer cheese-making and preserved mountain meat are held in common with Austria, France, Italy, Germany, Slovenia and Liechtenstein. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • part of Alpine Foodways documented

    Swiss Alpine foodways is one national share of a cross-border mountain system.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

Regional cuisines

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