Sainte-Maure Caprifeuille – a goat’s milk cheese from Poitou-Charentes. Sainte-Maure Caprifeuille is a raw, semi-soft goats milk cheese, with a thin consistent and wrinkled rind with superficial grey-white ... Read more!
Roquefort – the king of blue cheese from the Rouergue (département of Aveyron). Roquefort is made exclusively from raw full-cream ewe’s milk and is a blue vein cheese. The ... Read more!
Nestled in the heart of the French Alps, Reblochon is one of Haute-Savoie’s most iconic cheeses. Creamy, smooth, and delicately nutty, it has become a symbol of alpine ... Read more!
Pont l’Évêque is a cheese with a brushed yellow-orange to straw yellow rind. Pont l’Évêque is a cow’s milk cheese with a soft pâte, a washed yellow-orange to ... Read more!
Ossau-Iraty – a full-cream ewe’s milk cheese from the Pyrenees. Ossau-Iraty is a full-cream ewe’s milk cheese with a slightly pressed and uncooked pâte and a natural yellow-orangey ... Read more!
Morbier – a washed rind cheese from the Franche-Comté region. Morbier is a raw cow’s milk cheese made from uncooked pressed scalded curds. The fat content is at ... Read more!
Maroilles is a typical cheese from the Nord-Pas-de-Calais. It is a cow’s milk cheese with a soft pâte (uncooked and unpressed) and with a moist, brick red, washed ... Read more!
Livarot, a cow’s milk cheese from Normandy nicknamed “the colonel”. Livarot is a cheese made from raw or pasteurised cow’s milk. It has a soft pâte and a ... Read more!
Fromager d’affinois, a best-seller in Australia rich in calcium. Fromager d’affinois is a pasteurized cow’s milk cheese, with a soft and mouldy rind. The fat content is 30%. ... Read more!
Fleur du Maquis, one of the few Corsican cheese available outside France. The cheese is also known as ‘Brin d’amour’ and ‘Petit-Corse’. Fleur du Maquis is an unpressed, ... Read more!
Epoisses, a cow’s milk cheese from Burgundy. Epoisses is a full-cream cow’s milk cheese with a soft pâte and a washed rind. The fat content is at least ... Read more!
Comté, a cow’s milk and hard cheese from the Franche-Comté region. Comté is a cow’s milk cheese made from pressed scalded curds with a golden-yellow to brown firm ... Read more!
Camembert, France’s most famous cheese from Normandy. Camembert is a raw cow’s milk cheese with a soft pâte and a white mouldy rind which may have red stains. ... Read more!
Brillat-Savarin is a delightful and creamy cheese to the palate. Brillat-Savarin is a cow’s milk cheese with a soft pâte and a bloomy and fluffy rind. The fat ... Read more!
Beurre and Creme d’Isigny – the butter and crème fraiche from the village of Isigny in Normandy cannot be mistaken for another make! The minimum fat content of ... Read more!
Beaufort is a hard cheese produced in the alpine valleys of Savoie (Tarentaise, Maurienne and Beaufortain). This cooked and pressed cheese is made with full-cream raw cow’s milk. The fat content is ... Read more!
Leckerlis are swiss little gingerbreads which come from Basle on the border of France and are often cooked in South Alsace … one is never enough! They are part ... Read more!
A Christmas log is the traditional dessert for the French Christmas meal on the 24th of December. It is a rolled sponge / Genoese sponge in the shape ... Read more!
Bredalas are little Christmas cookies whose preparation date back to the Renaissance. This is probably one of the best known Alsatian traditions. The Bredalas (the spelling changes depending ... Read more!
Raclette – a cheese produced in Savoie which gave its name to a popular dish. Raclette is a raw cow’s milk cheese with an uncooked pressed pâte. The ... Read more!
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