Review: California USA Arz Brand, Labne Kefir Cheese

[Cheese Head]

Couple months ago I looked in our local Eastern Mediterranean grocery store at these Labne/Lebni/Labneh cheeses.

Last weekend bought the California USA Arz Brand Lebne. As you can see a very thick product half way between sour cream and cream cheese in consistency, flavor is more towards cream cheese but not a strong.

Excellent quality product, especially for USD2. Sadly I tried it on a jacket potato as had no sour cream, next time I'll have to try it with olive oil and herbs like member Leao posted about here.

Questions to others more knowledgeable than me:

• I assume Labne/Lebni/Labneh/Labaneh are all the same just different spellings and slightly different pronunciations depending if from Turkey/Syria/Lebanon/Israel?
• I thought Lebaneh was made by draining yogurt of it's whey, whereas this mine says it's Kefir based?

[Cheese Head]

Pictures of the Arz brand . . .

[DeejayDebi]

That store must be HUGE to have all those cheeses and room for other stuff too!