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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today’s special Google doodle honors the inventor of the Camembert cheese. Marie Harel was born 256 years ago today in Crouttes, France. She invented the Camembert cheese back in 1791, at the age of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Could we live in a world without camembert? [Photo: Getty] Cheese-lovers, you might want to sit down for this one. Apparently ...

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.

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 ...

To be called Camembert, a cheese has to weigh at least 250 grams, be 10 centimeters in diameter, and have about 22% fat content. The iconic cheese originated in the northern French region of Normandy, ...

If you love a good stinky cheese, you’ll appreciate that a statue was built to commemorate the patron saint of stinky cheeses, Marie Harel, and that a Google Doodle was later doodled in her honor.

Legend has it that the world has the French Revolution to thank for Camembert. The cheese with hints of caramelized butter and earthy mushrooms dates back to 1791, when a fleeing priest is said to ...