With over 500 French cheeses available in a delicious range of flavours, from the very mild to the quite powerful, there's an almost endless variety to choose from.
French cheese is a traditional food that's ideally suited to a busy lifestyle. Perfect for creating super-quick healthy snacks or delicious treats, French cheeses are high in nutrients and big on flavour.
Popular French Cheeses include Brie (soft cheese with white mould), Chaumes (soft cheese with washed rind), Madrigal (nutty and mild sliced cheese), Fourme d´Ambert (Half-solid sliced cheese with blue mould) and Goat Camembert (Soft cheese with white mould).
Use them in a pasta sauce, sandwich, tossed in a salad, a topping on a vegetable bake, or enjoy them on their own as a meal in their own right.
Great for parties, spread French cheese on crackers and biscuits for canapés, or on a cheeseboard served with lots of crusty French bread.
Red wine is the perfect partner to cheese, however white wine can also be paired with 70 per cent of French cheeses, a dry white or even a sweet white wine.
And, they're not as fattening as you might think. Fat content, indicated on the cheese label, is calculated in relation to the cheese's dry matter (cheese contains water that contributes to its weight), not in relation to the weight of the cheese.
A 100g slice of French brie contains only 30 per cent fat as a percentage of the whole cheese compared with 40 per cent for the same weight of cheddar. Furthermore, a range of light but equally delicious cheeses is widely available, bringing you all the taste, with fewer calories.
French cheeses may be the ultimate quick food and the key ingredient to transform your quick recipe into a feast, but they take time and care to make. Although modern technology is used throughout France to produce cheese, French cheese makers have retained their skills and craft.
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