France is definitely the country of cheese. There’s nothing to add
- Cantal
Cantal is an uncooked pressed cow’s milk cheese. Nicknamed “the cheese of the Country of Gabales and Gevaudan” by Pliny the Elder, Cantal is one of the oldest cheeses in history.
- Reblochon
The birth of Reblochon occurs in the 13th century in the Thônes Valley, in Haute-Savoie.
- Munster
Munster is a cheese with a soft, washed rind paste made from raw cow’s milk. It was born in the 7th century thanks to the monks of the “Monasterium Confluentes” who wanted to keep the milk and at the same time feed the people.
- Maroilles
Soft cheese with a washed rind, Maroilles is one of the oldest cheeses in France. According to tradition, Maroilles was invented by a monk from the monastery of Landrecies around 960.
- Camembert
According to legend, this soft cheese with a floral rind was born in the village of Camembert (in the Orne), on the property of Jacques and Marie Harel. The couple hid since October 1790, Father Charles-Jean, Benedictine and prior of Rouxville, in order to save them from the repression emanating from the French Revolution.
- Brie
Brie is said to be the ancestor of all soft cheeses, such as camembert. It was King Charlemagne who first spoke of it in 774, then it was the turn of King Robert II the Pious who was very interested in his trade in 999.
- Roquefort
Legend says that a loving shepherd, wanting to seduce his beauty, left his snack made of rye bread and sheep’s cheese in a cave where he rested. When he returned some time later, to taste his dish, he discovered mold there, and this is how Roquefort was born!
