{"id":17519,"date":"2019-05-01T17:35:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T15:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/?p=17519"},"modified":"2022-06-08T21:29:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:29:53","slug":"history-and-tradition-of-french-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/history-and-tradition-of-french-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"History and tradition of French Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles de Gaulle once said, “How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”. Well, little did he know that France would have 1200 varieties by now.<\/p>\n

Two million tons of cheese are produced each year and French people eat around twenty-five kilos a year individually. It represents eighteen kilograms of cheese eaten on bread or included to a meal and seven kilos of cream cheese that you put in cakes for example.<\/p>\n

At the top of the ladder, in terms of the most popular cheeses, we have got the Emmental with 146 000 tons sold each year, followed by the camembert with 52 500 tons.<\/p>\n

The History of French Cheese<\/h2>