Solution: Crumbly cheese similar to feta - NYT Crossword

For a “Crumbly cheese similar to feta,” I naturally went for chevre, which is, as far as I’m concerned, the goat version of the Greek cheese in question. I love cheese! But I have no knowledge of SIRENE, which I had to look up, and of course I found international intrigue. SIRENE actually just means “cheese” in Bulgarian, and Bulgaria stakes a claim as the place where culturing milk for yogurt and cheese was invented. For many decades all of these types of cheeses from Europe were known as feta, in fact. Greece, which everyone knows is a mere upstart in world civilization, applied to the European Union to be the only country that could use the term “feta” and, to avert a continental cheese war, the pragmatic dairy people agreed.