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A modern legend identifies as Brie de Meaux a certain cheese dating to the seventh century, "rich and creamy", with an edible white rind that in the 774 AD Frankish Emperor Charlemagne first tasted in the company of a bishop and approved, [1] requiring two cartloads to be sent to Aachen annually; the site, not mentioned in the anecdotal but unreliable ninth-century life of Charlemagne, De ...
Brie de Melun. Brie de Melun has an average weight of 1.5 kilograms (3.3 lb) and a diameter of 27 cm (11 in), [8] smaller than Brie de Meaux. It has a stronger flavour and more pungent smell. It is made with unpasteurised milk. Brie de Melun is also available in the form of "Old Brie" or black brie. It was granted the protection of AOC status ...
Following the official administrative French AOC there are two designations of Brie de Meaux: Brie de Meaux fermier ("farm Brie de Meaux", made out of the milk from the cows of a single unique producer) and Brie de Meaux laitier (laitier, that is from the French lait, "milk", which designates here an agreement, a mixture of the milk of ...
You might also spot herb Brie or Brie made with other types of milk, such as goat milk. French Brie cheeses (including two prominent styles Brie de Meaux and Brie de Melun) are traditionally made ...
Brie de Meaux: at the Congress of Vienna (1814). In fact, it was declared Prince des fromages, et premier des desserts ('Prince of cheeses, and first among desserts'), which only later became "king of cheeses, cheese of kings".
Brie region in France. Brie (/ b r iː /; French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a historic region of northern France notable in modern times for Brie cheese. [1] It was once divided into three sections ruled by different feudal lords: the western Brie française, corresponding roughly to the modern department of Seine-et-Marne in the Île-de-France region; the eastern Brie champenoise, forming a ...
The National Centre for Scientific Research, France’s state-run science agency, has warned that Camembert, brie and even blue cheeses “could disappear,” owing to a decline in the strains of ...
The wineries owned by Edmond de Rothschild Heritage produce 3.5 million bottles of wine every year. [9] Edmond de Rothschild Heritage owns 250 Holstein cows for the production of Brie de Meaux Fermier AOC in Seine-et-Marne, France, and produces honey, terrine, jam and other farm products. [24]