To the modern consumer, the word Feta means cheese in brine that is produced in Greece exclusively from sheep's and goat's milk, having its roots in the ancient Greek tradition.

What we nowadays call FETA cheese was known to ancient Greeks, at least since Homer's era, as there were several references to it in the Odyssey. The myth has it that the Cyclop Polyphimos was the first cheese manufacturer. Carrying the milk that he collected from his sheep in animal skinbags, he realised, to his great surprise, that days later the milk had become a solid, savory and able- to-preserve mass.

The ancient Greeks called the product which was the result of the solidification of milk "cheese". The name Feta dates back to the 17th century and probably it refers to the method of cutting the cheese in slices to put it in barrels. The name Feta was used in the 19th century, characterizing the cheese that is manufactured for centuries on end with the same technique, its origins deeply rooted in time.