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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

French cheeses are in trouble. Popular varieties like Camembert, brie and blue cheese are at risk of disappearing due to a collapse of microbial diversity, according to a statement from France’s ...

There are French writers who seduce us with descriptions of the culinary and romantic landscape, and there are those who reveal the mysteries behind ordinary objects and characters. Pierre Boisard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sweet and creamy, Camembert holds a special place in the heart of cheese lovers. The iconic cheese originated in the northern ...

This showstopper makes the perfect appetizer for holiday gatherings. Persimmon, pomegranate and rosemary celebrate the season and impart festive flavor and color to an oozing, molten wheel of ...

On the face of it, Camembert doesn’t seem like an endangered species. In fact, the soft-ripened cheese seems like the opposite: Three hundred and sixty million wheels are produced annually in France.