Karen Braha's Cheese of Brooklyn, New York produces a homemade string cheese, aka mozzarella, which is dusted in a zahatar Israeli-style spice blend and sesame seeds.
Once sliced, it breaks apart easily and is good for apéritif snacking alongside fresh vegetables. The producer suggests shredding it into a circular mound of strings on a platter with sliced tomatoes and cucumbers around the edge and a bowl of spicy olives in the center.
The top of the cheese is coated with zahatar and sesame seeds. The label includes caraway as an ingredient, but I don't see or taste caraway. The zahatar seems to be what is giving the cheese its flecks and light grey-green coloring on the inside.
This is a dense cheese. The cheese itself--apart from the spices--is very mild and sliceable. It can be served in slices, which also break away into little strips of the string.
Pulling the string away...
...makes for an odd presentation.
