| | The Emmental Switzerland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | A local nineteenth-century clergyman-writer celebrated the sturdiness and moral rectitude of Emmentaler dairy farmers in a series of famous novels under the pseudonym Jeremias Gotthelf; since then the place has gathered to itself an atmosphere of earnest rural stability and honesty. |
 | | Emmentaler architecture is distinctive, the local timber-built inns and dairies crowned by huge roofs with overarching eaves, ringed by wooden balconies, and encrusted with rows of tiny windows, each with its window box and neatly tied-back set of net curtains. |
 | | Emmentaler cooking, featuring cheese or cream with everything, is renowned around the country, and in 1999, some forty local inns and restaurants got together to regulate the quality of cuisine on offer in the region. |
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