SLOVENSKÉ BRYNDZIARSTVO A VAGAČOVSKÁ VÝROBŇA V DETVE K 230. VÝROČIU VZNIKU PRVEJ BRYNDZIARNE
Production of bryndza in Slovakia and the Vagač bryndza manufacture in Detva: On the 230th anniversary of the founding of the first industrial site for the production of bryndza

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the history of the production of bryndza, a sheep milk product considered traditional to and symbolic of Slovakia. Bryndza is a kneaded, salted and preserved sheep cheese is the product of Carpathian sheep breeding and its specific lifestyle associated with the Wallach colonization of Slovakia. Geographical conditions favorable to sheep breeding across most of Slovakia and native adaptations of sheep cheese for better marketability gave rise to this specifically Slovak product and made it the chief export of local sheep breeding. This was significantly aided by dedicated bryndza manufactures the first of which was founded in 1787 by Ján Vagač in Detva. This paper examines its founding and traces its history all to way to its nationalization and dissolution.

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