Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cutting brie in a cheese store in London in 2007. (Cate Gillon/Getty Images) (Cate Gillon via Getty Images) Legend has it that the ...

CAMEMBERT, France — On a tiny farm tucked into the lush, green hillside of Normandy, Aude Sementzeff heats raw milk from cows up the hill until it curdles, then scoops it into molds to make a round, ...

Camembert cheese and brie could become extinct because of a decline in fungi, French scientists have warned. The National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) said that attempts to make camembert ...

When Napoleon first encountered a Camembert cheese, legend has it, he was so delighted he kissed the waitress who plonked it in front of him. Setting aside the inappropriateness of this gesture, the ...

At La Ferme du Champ Secret in Normandy, France, owner Patrick Mercier is delighted that his cheese has been said to have “the flavor of the barn.” He and the other workers at the fourth generation ...

Camembert cheese is one of France's most famous culinary traditions—but as Bloomberg reports, truly authentic wheels of the soft, creamy delicacy are in danger of disappearing from market shelves. The ...

To be called Camembert, a cheese has to weigh at least 250 grams, be 10 centimeters in diameter, and have about 22% fat content. The iconic cheese originated in the northern French region of Normandy, ...

In short: Media reporting over the last month has claimed some French soft cheeses are "under threat" from a lack of genetic diversity in cheese cultures. A leading cheesemaker and veteran ...

The best Camembert cheese comes from Normandy, made with unpasteurized milk from cows grazing peacefully in the region's emerald grassy fields for six months of each year. Gazing over those meadows, ...