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!
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Camembert, Normandy
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, Burgundy
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 Crème d’Isigny, Normandy
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 cheese: Things you should know
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!
French cheese: facts and figures
Every region in France supports a large population of milk-giving animals which provide the raw material for French cheese. Therefore, there are more than 400 French cheese varieties ... Read more!
Leckerlis from Basle – Leckerlis de Bâle
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!
French Christmas log – Bûche de Noël
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 Christmas Cookies – Bredalas de Noël
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 Cheese
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!
Mulhouse Museums: 7 Amazing Places to Visit in Alsace
The Mulhouse Museums offer an exceptional experience in France. Some of them have gained international renown, making the Alsatian city the coveted title of “European capital of Technical ... Read more!
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur: France’s Second Most-Visited Region
The region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur comprises six départements in south-eastern France. Casually known as “PACA” or “Région Sud”, the region is bordered by Italy to the East and ... Read more!
Corse – Corsica
Affectuously called “L’Île de Beauté” (Beauty Island) by the French, Corsica lies to the South-east of continental France in the Mediterranean Sea. The island of Corsica Its ... Read more!
Aquitaine
Aquitaine is located in south-western France and is famous for its wild ocean coast (the “Côte d’Argent”), its pine forest of the Landes (the largest in Europe), but ... Read more!
What you need to know about the Lorraine Region
Lorraine is famous worldwide for its quiche, macarons, Mirabelle plum and madeleine. It is home to more than 2,3 million inhabitants (Lorrains and Lorraines). For many years, the ... Read more!
Normandie – Normandy
Normandy combines a rich green landscape with the tumultuous shores of the (English) Channel. From Mont-Saint-Michel to the terrific cliffs of Etretat, the Normandy province stretches across a ... Read more!
Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Nord-Pas-de-Calais was a French administrative region now part of the Hauts-de-France region. Located in the north of France it is surrounded by Picardy to the south, Belgium to ... Read more!
Explore Amiens Cathedral, France’s largest church
Did you know that Amiens Cathedral is the largest Gothic structure in France? Indeed, this enormous edifice covers 7,700 m2. It can shelter 10,000 people within its walls, ... Read more!
Beauvais Cathedral: the gravity-defying church
Situated 60km north of Paris, Beauvais Cathedral symbolises the height of architectural endeavour in the gothic architecture of the Middle Ages. Ambitious and gravity-defying, the cathedral of Saint-Pierre ... Read more!
Île de France, the historic province of the Paris Region
The Île de France region is one of the ancient provinces of France, and the one that has been the centre of power during most of French history ... Read more!
