Wednesday, July 18, 2007

The Battle for Camembert

The food fight in Normandy rages on, reports the Independent of London.

Cheesemakers there still can't agree over just what should constitute a proper Camembert. And as the paper notes, the battle lines have been growing ever sharper.

The age-old question at stake: Tradition or modernity?
Civil war is raging in the gentle, green fields of lower Normandy. Words such as "treachery" and "betrayal" and "cheat" are being hurled over the hedgerows.

When is a Camembert not a Camembert? Should 200 years of local, cheese-making tradition be micro-filtered into oblivion in the industrial vats of the French mass-market, food industry?

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