Halloumi recrods from 1560
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 Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 3:14 pm |
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On RikSat two nights ago there was a historian who describd how records in the Venice library refer to Halloumi, by that exact name, in 1560.
According to the expert, a lady whose name I cannot remember, the Venetian noble Leonardo Dona decided to study the customs and ways of Cypriots and he made copious notes. In these notes there is a reference to Halloumi in 1560, a decade before the Ottoman invasion.
Leonardo Dona intended to collate his notes in a book on Cyprus but he was killed in Nicosia in 1571.
Seems now he is extracting his revenge. His records will be used to protect Halloumi as a national cheese of RoC. |
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| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 3:25 pm |
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| I thought we had the name protected already. |
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| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 3:30 pm |
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You can never have too much evidence to help back you up against the revisionists. With all the TC talk on the forum, I was feeling guilty about eating halloumi ..... never again.  It is well and truly ours. Well done Nikitas!
Kali Orexi! |
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| Re: Halloumi recrods from 1560 | |
| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 3:30 pm |
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| Get Real! |
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| Nikitas wrote: |
| Seems now he is extracting his revenge. His records will be used to protect Halloumi as a national cheese of RoC. |
I'd say that Italy now has a strong legal claim to Halloumi given that Cyprus was under Venetian rule...  |
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| Re: Halloumi recrods from 1560 | |
| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 3:32 pm |
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| Get Real! wrote: |
| Nikitas wrote: |
| Seems now he is extracting his revenge. His records will be used to protect Halloumi as a national cheese of RoC. |
I'd say that Italy now has a strong legal claim to Halloumi given that Cyprus was under Venetian rule... |
I think those Cheese snobs would turn their noses up at Halloumi .... Without contest it is ours! |
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