Intro to French Cheese

A brief review of the main classes of French gourmet cheeses, covering hard and soft cheese. Mentions Brie, Camembert, lovely Roquefort and the proper way of tasting cheese at a meal.
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When one thinks of france visions of cheese and wine often occur it’s estimated that france produces more than 200 different types of cheeses cheese is one of the staples of french food culture along with bread pastries and wine whether you have a like cheese spread on your morning bread

A hard cheese in your baguette at lunch or a strong after dinner cheese cheese is a central element of the french diet in fact so central is cheese to french food that it often has its own corset of meal breaking the cheeses down into the categories soft and hard is a good way

To get oriented generally speaking soft cheeses like brie camembert epoisos and saint nectar are for real cheese lovers harder cheeses are a mental and mimolet like a dutch adam finally blue cheese is like the famous rogueford are popular with many for the cheese lover or for the food

Adventurer trying some of these soft french cheeses can be a good way to become absolutely addicted to the finer tastes of france common custom is to take some of each cheese from the cheese platter and put it on your own plate as it is passed around the table

You will not see the french reaching into the center of the table to cut each piece of cheese serve yourself as the platter goes around the table and after everyone has been served give it a taste if you like it ask for the platter to be passed again

The french will be delighted that foreigners like their cheeses so much