France's Last 'Real Camembert' Cheese Fights For Survival
September 27, 2016 | 1 min to read
Camembert, the village that gave its name to France's most famous – and imitated – cheese, has only one remaining traditional "fromagerie" still making the speciality, and it's holding its own against big industry.
As they tend cows and ladle curdled raw milk into low, wooden cylindrical moulds, the Durand family and their employees don't look like militants in a Gallic culinary battle against globalisation.
But they are on the front line in this Normandy locality, population 200, on a picturesque hillside where Camembert was first created during the French Revolution.
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