"A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful girl without an eye." - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Soft Cheese Guides
Taleggio, Brie, Camembert, Stracchino are just some examples of soft cheeses.
Soft cheeses are the most popular cheeses in the world, especially in Europe. In France, they almost represent half of the cheeses produced!
They are becoming more and more popular and satisfying the taste of consumers for the low percentage of waste and for their sweet taste, much appreciated by the most delicate palates.
If you are one of them, buy soft cheeses on Sensibus.com and shop with confidence.
Epoisses is a French soft cheese, washed-rind, fat and short-seasoned, first produced at the beginning of the sixteenth century by the Cistercian monks living in Époisses.
The Brillat-Savarin is a fabulous cow's milk cheese from Bourgogne, created in the 1930s by affineur Henri Androuet.
Brie cheese AOC is a semi-fat cow French soft cheese hailing from the current department of Seine-et-Marne and it takes its name from the homonymous territory east of Paris.
Taleggio is a DOP Italian soft cheese from Lombardy belonging to the Stracchino cheese family. Its name comes from the valley near Bergamo it hails from.
Stracchino is a fresh very creamy soft cheese made only with the best Italian cow milk cheese in Piedmont and Lombardy. Read more about this delicious and versatile cheese.
Camembert is a French soft cheese with a typical white rind, made from raw or pasteurized cow's milk. Camembert is definitely one of the most popular French cheeses. Buy it online!
Soft Cheese Types
Soft cheeses can be distinguished in:
- soft cheeses without rind like Stracchino or Mozzarella;
- soft cheeses with bloomy rind like Robiola, Brie or Camembert;
- soft cheeses with washed rind like Taleggio, Bavarian Limburger and more.
Soft Cheese in Pregnancy
Saying that soft cheese is bad for pregnancy as a rule is wrong. But there are some apsects that should be considered. Some soft and semi-soft cheeses processed with molds such as Brie, Gorgonzola, Camembert, could be contaminated by the Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium that can cause food poisoning to pregnant women.
Image: Robiola Cheese with Plum Jam, Kurman Communications, CC BY 2.0
