The cheese is made by inoculating warmed cow milk with mesophilic bacteria, then adding rennet and allowing the mixture to coagulate. The curd is then cut into roughly 1cm (1/2 inch) cubes, salted, and transferred to low cylindrical camembert molds. [2] The molds are turned every six to twelve hours to allow the whey to drain evenly from the cut curds; after 48 hours, each mold contains a flat, cylindrical, solid cheese mass weighing generally 250 grams (about 9 oz). At this point the fresh cheese is hard, crumbly, and bland. Président is a French dairy brand owned by Lactalis of Laval, Mayenne. The brand was created in 1933 by André Besnier. It is used for butter and for a range of industrially produced versions of traditional cheese. If it doesn’t come in a wooden box, you can use a small baking pot or a Camembert baker, a cast-iron skillet or kitchen foil. For other Président® products, we recommend you look at the ingredients list on the label to verify that it is compliant with a vegetarian diet. A presidential campaign is always a knife fight, cruel and operatic. Blood is spilled, hopes are crushed, and in the end the voters give their thumbs up or down. To the victor the spoils and woe unto the vanquished, vae victis .

Richez-Lerouge believes that this decision sounds the death toll for quality camembert, telling the Daily Telegraph that the cheese will now likely “sink inexorably into mediocrity”.No matter how the technique arrived, the Normandy region that had previously produced only washed-rind cheeses like Livarot or Pont l’Evêque suddenly began making bloomy-rinded cheese like brie in the 18th Century, and camembert has been inextricable from Camembert ever since. The brand was created in 1933 by André Besnier who by then was already a leading figure in the French dairy business. Explaining the name's French context, Besnier explained that "France is the land of presidents, everyone is a president: of a club of fishermen, of bowlers, of veterans". «La France est le pays des Présidents, tout le monde est président! De l'association de pêche, des boulistes, des anciens combattants.» [1] (Presidential government had also enjoyed a higher profile in France since the return to power as president, in 1958, of leading president Charles de Gaulle.)

How can you govern a country that sports 258 varieties of cheese?” De Gaulle had once quipped. The quote may be apocryphal but it captures the essence of the Général’s theory of governance. It points to the fragmentation and to the centrifugal forces that stirred in French society. In his experience, if the myriad of local and class interests that make up France were given legislative representation and power, nothing could ever get accomplished. At heart, his was a pessimistic view of France’s political culture and civic life, but one that was not necessarily unfounded. Don’t forget, parliamentary rule had failed not once but twice in the span of two short decades, in 1940 and in 1958. Both times De Gaulle had ridden to the rescue (in somewhat ambiguous circumstances in 1958, but that’s for another post). Say what you will about the tenets of Gaullism, but the man had a point.

The powers of the President are not broad sui generis . The President is Jupiter because De Gaulle deliberately strangled the legislative branch. Compared to the presidency, everything else, every other elective position, parliament, big city, small city, region, department etc – all this is a sideshow or a stepping stone. If your goal is to enact your political vision or your policy agenda, left, right or centrist, there is only one place, and that place is the Presidency. The rest is irrelevant, or rather it is only relevant insofar as it allows you to build notoriety, influence, a clientèle or a party faction, which may then earn you a portfolio in the government, proximity to the monarch-President and eventually, the supreme office itself. The first camembert was made from unpasteurized milk, and the AOC variety "Camembert de Normandie" (approximately 10% of the production) is required by law to be made only with unpasteurized milk. Many modern cheesemakers outside of Normandy, France, however, use pasteurized milk for reasons of safety, compliance with regulations, or convenience. [2] Lactalis® American Group strives to comply with local and federal regulations, and the farms supplying milk are regularly inspected by the inspectors of the States Department of Agriculture. The variety named Camembert de Normandie was granted a protected designation of origin in 1992 after the original AOC in 1983. The AOC Camembert can only be made from raw, unpasteurized milk from Normandes cows. Problems with hygiene regulations have caused restrictions on importation and sale in some countries, notably the US; [6] a variant made from pasteurized milk is sold in these territories instead. First, rennet is added to the milk, then the curd is moulded with a ladle (six ladlefuls 60 minutes apart for each Camembert). Afterwards it will be salted and inoculated. A thin, white bloom will delicately cover the cheese. Finally, it will be aged for 15 days in a drying room so that the cheese develops its ensemble of flavours. The pasteurisation of the milk allows for mechanised production, particularly during coagulation. On continuous curdling machinery, the coagulated milk is cut into small cubes to facilitate moulding.

Overripe camembert contains an unpleasant, excessive amount of ammonia, which is produced by the same microorganisms required for ripening. [9] Comparison to brie [ edit ] Do not put the cheese in the oven without one of the options given above, as it will spread around.

Disclaimer

You might wonder: why would electing the President by popular vote be such a big deal? After all, this is how things are done in the United States (at least technically). The key difference of course is that in the US the President cannot dissolve Congress at his or her leisure. The legislative and the executive branches are co-equal. In effect De Gaulle’s constitutional reform aimed to neuter, if not destroy, the legislative branch. It did keep Parliament alive but in name only, as an empty shell. This could seem like a good compromise, allowing discerning consumers to seek out raw-milk camembert while industrial producers continue to churn out the pasteurised version for the masses – and overseas sales. But, according to Véronique Richez-Lerouge, president of l'Association Fromages de Terroirs, two-tier AOPs like this “don’t work”. At the Festival des AOC/AOP, she cited the example of Cantal cheese from France’s Auvergne region, where the creation of a two-tiered system and subsequent market shift towards less-expensive pasteurised Cantal has led 40% of artisan, raw-milk cheesemakers to leave the AOP label entirely in favour of producing ‘ Salers tradition’, an ancestral version of Cantal. The government fell but De Gaulle won his referendum. And so began the second Fifth Republic, or what some have called the post-Algerian Fifth Republic. Like in any monarchy, succession is one, if not the monarch’s central concern — but also that of his courtiers, of his sworn enemies and of all the usual cast of rumor-mongers, reprobates, prospective turncoats and budding traitors. And because it is an elective monarchy rather than a dynastic one, the public plays the pivotal role in that recurring high-stakes drama. It is Games of Throne and Lord of the Flies and Survivor , but in real life and with real consequences. The final conclusion of the Algerian crisis promised a return to the more regular state of affairs, where Parliament would reassert its sway and its full powers of nuisance. It was the end of De Gaulle’s de facto free rein. It became apparent to De Gaulle that the rowdy and splintered legislators were not keen to follow his lead. The Constitution of 1958 had failed to solve the quandary that had brought it into existence in the first place: government weakness and instability stemming from a fractious parliament.

Brie vs Camembert - Health impact and Nutrition Comparison". Food Struct. Archived from the original on 2022-05-20 . Retrieved 2022-05-08. Slash the top of the cheese and add your toppings. For ideas, read our guide 5 ways with baked camembert. Depending on your location, Président® products can be available in online grocery stores and major retailers’ online store. You can find a store near you using our Product Locator.

More Appetizer Recipes

Of course, it would be unfair to say that camembert is merely brie made in Normandy. While the cheeses are made with the same Penicillium camemberti spore and thus boast a similar downy white mould, flavour-wise, camembert exists somewhere between the milder, buttery Brie de Meaux and the rich, meaty Brie de Melun. This can be attributed, at least in part, to the fact that while Brie de Meaux is made primarily with rennet fermentation and Brie de Melun with lactic fermentation, camembert is made with a bit of both – a process facilitated by the rich, raw milk of local Normande cows with which camembert should always be made, at least in the mind of a true turophile. Despite the loss of the word, locals did finally earn AOC status for the traditional cheese in 1983, when the INAO developed an official charter, not for ‘camembert’ but for the phrase ‘Camembert de Normandie’. The cheese, it was decided, would be obligatorily made in Normandy, with the raw milk of pastured herds of cows ‘in a process of genetic evolution’ towards the Normande breed (a rule that was modified to specify that, at first, 25%, and then, in 2017, 50% of the herd be made up of Normande cattle).