Because of the laws that regulate the sale of unpasteurized dairy products in the United States, many of the cheeses on this list can only be experienced in their true glory on French soil.

France has a lot of cheese. Photo by ERIC PIERMONT / AFP One ... are made to essentially the same recipe but have different names depending on where they are produced - sometimes even being ...

and the cheese has become a symbol of French culture. It was used to feed French soldiers during World War I and even gave its name to the pie chart, which in French is called "un diagramme en ...

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I would refer to grated cheese as "raped cheese" ... you can imagine the face of my friends and of the waiter! In fact rapé is the French word for grated and I now know it very well!