FRENCH CHEESE

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This section covers information about some of France’s most famous cheeses. Every month a new cheese is added to the list.

CLICK on the cheese of your choice:

Beaufort - a hard cheese produced in the Vanoise mountains in Savoie.

Camembert - France’s most famous cheese.

Reblochon - a semi-hard cheese from Savoie.

Raclette - a cheese produced in Savoie which gave its name to a popular dish.

Brie de Meaux - the King of Cheeses.

Roquefort - the king of blue cheese from the Rouergue (département of Aveyron).

Morbier - a washed rind cheese from the Franche-Comté region.

Munster - a cheese from the Vosges Mountains produced in Alsace and Lorraine.

All about French cheese - an easy-to-read and general description of French cheeses.

NEW!

Pont l'Evêque - a cheese with a brushed yellow-orange to straw yellow rind.

Beurre and Creme d’Isigny - the butter and crème fraiche from the village of Isigny in Normandy cannot be mistaken for another make!

Comté - a cow’s milk and hard cheese from the Franche-Comté region.

Sainte-Maure de Touraine - a goat’s milk cheese from the Loire Valley.

Soignon - a popular goat’s milk cheese from the Poitou.

Fleur du Maquis - one of the few Corsican cheese available in Australia.

Fromager d’affinois - A best-seller in Australia rich in calcium.

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Ossau-Iraty - a full-cream ewe’s milk cheese from the Pyrenees.

Livarot - a cow’s milk cheese from Normandy nicknamed “the colonel”.

Epoisses - a cow’s milk cheese from Burgundy.