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Oscypek is the smoked sheep-milk cheese the Tatra highlanders bring down from the mountains, sliced and grilled in Kraków with cranberry jam as the canonical winter bar snack and Christmas-market plate.
Oscypek has been produced in the Polish Tatra Mountains since at least the 14th century by Górale (highlander) shepherds. The cheese is brined, then smoked over pine wood for two weeks, taking on a hard amber crust and a chewy, salty interior. The EU registered oscypek as a Protected Designation of Origin in 2008; only sheep-milk cheese smoked in the Tatra by traditional methods may carry the name. Kraków's Old Town cellar restaurants (Pod Aniołami, Morskie Oko) grill it sliced and serve with cranberry jam; the Rynek Główny Christmas market stalls have run grilled oscypek from open-flame grills since the 1990s.
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