Sharjah Blue

A new name in the world of smelly cheese! I discovered this at Geant about a week ago. They have a fairly splendid cheese counter there, but I was looking for Bleu D'Auvergne and they didn't have any. But I spotted this thing called 'local cheese wheel' - it contains good old penicillin roqueforti and is made in Sharjah. So it's a whole lot cheaper than imported cheese, and I have to say it's pretty tasty.

One thing you can never really accuse most local cheese of is having an adundance of taste. We're talking about things like halloumi and roumi here - if they taste of anything at all, it's salt.