Camembert a delicious cheese from Normandy - thank you Marie!
Camembert a delicious cheese from Normandy - thank you Marie!
Camembert a delicious cheese from Normandy - thank you Marie!
Camembert a delicious cheese from Normandy - thank you Marie!
Did you think you knew the Camembert? But the Normandy Camembert exclusively made from raw milk. The real, the only, the authentic taste of France.
Marie Harel (born Marie Catherine Fontaine; April 28, 1761[1] – November 9, 1844) was a French cheesemaker, who, along with Abbot Charles-Jean Bonvoust, invented Camembert cheese, according to local legend. She worked as a cheesemaker at the Manor of Beaumoncel and made Camembert cheeses according to local custom.
Her main contribution was to have initiated a dynasty of entrepreneurial cheesemakers who developed the production of Camembert cheese on a large scale, notably her grandson Cyrille Paynel, born in 1817, who created a cheese factory in the commune of Le Mesnil-Mauger in Calvados in France.
