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In larger coopératives quantities of cheese produced may be relatively large, akin to some industriel producers (many may be classed as factory-made [5]). Industriel: factory-made cheese from milk sourced locally or regionally, perhaps all over France (depending on the AOC/PDO regulations for specific cheeses).
Today, Britain has 15 protected cheeses from approximately 40 types listed by the British Cheese Board. The British Cheese Board claims a total number of about 700 different products (including similar cheeses produced by different companies). [31] France has 50 protected cheeses, Italy 52, [32] and Spain 26. Italy has at least 400 cheese ...
Name Image Region Description Caravane cheese: The brand name of a camel milk cheese produced in Mauritania by Tiviski, [5] a company founded by Nancy Abeiderrhamane in 1987. The milk used to make the cheese is collected from the local animals of a thousand nomadic herdsmen, and is very difficult to produce, but yields a product that is low in lactose.
Produced in France’s northwestern region of Normandy in various forms since at least the 18th century, the cheese - creamy, pungent and gooey - is now regarded as France’s favorite.
The British Cheese Board once claimed that Britain has approximately 700 distinct local cheeses; [45] France and Italy have perhaps 400 each (a French proverb holds there is a different French cheese for every day of the year, and Charles de Gaulle once asked "how can you govern a country in which there are 246 kinds of cheese?").
Cheeses may be categorized by the source of the milk used to produce them. While most of the world's commercially available cheese is made from cow's milk, many parts of the world also produce cheese from goats and sheep. Examples include Roquefort (produced in France) and pecorino (produced in Italy) from ewe's milk. [6]
Neufchâtel is the oldest of the Norman cheeses, having likely been made as early as the 6th century, [3] and known to have been made between 1050 [4] and 1543. [3] For the end-of-year festivals during the Hundred Years' War, stories say that young girls offered heart-shaped cheeses to English soldiers to show their affection.
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