Feta cheese is the Greek cheese; in northern Greece if the recipe just says “cheese” it means feta. This article looks at Bulgarian, French, and Israeli feta too. Originating from the Balkans, it’s impossible and pointless to say if the cheese came first from Bulgaria or Greece. It’s a recent product in France where sheep farmers began producing it to avoid flooding the Roquefort market. Israeli produces a quality product too, but of course the connoisseurs turn their noses up at anything except the Greek barrel-aged versions.