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Cheese expertise (none / 1)

I know that there are loads of varieties of Camembert around, whole shelves of them in french supermarkets.

But which are the best ? Not just camembert AOC, but unpasteurised, ladled and that extra special whatever.

After all, I'll be there in September and I need to know these things.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jul 29th, 2008 at 04:17:07 PM EST

Re: Cheese expertise (none / 1)

Actually, there are many brands of Camembert, but most have stopped doing AOC Camembert, as they are owned by a couple large companies (Lactalis...) which want to use filtered, pasteurised milk, for "safety reasons" and mostly because it's cheaper to produce. Go for the few remaining AOC brands.

Although you can find Camembert marinated in Calvados, too...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Tue Jul 29th, 2008 at 08:51:55 PM EST
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