Fourme d'Ambert

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Fourme d'Ambert is a pasteurized cow's milk blue cheese from the Auvergne region of France. The cheese has a distinct, narrow cylindrical shape.^[1] The semi-hard cheese is inoculated with Penicillium roqueforti spores and aged for at least 28 days. Almost identical to Fourme de Montbrison, the two were protected by the same AOC from 1972 until 2002 when each was recognized as its own cheese with slight differences in manufacture.^[2] A likeness of the cheese can be found sculpted above the entrance to a medieval chapel in Chaulme.^[3]

[edit] References

1. ^ Iburg, Anne (2004). Dumont's Lexicon of Cheese. REBO publishers. ISBN 90 366 1689 1. 
2. ^ AOC Fourme d’Ambert et de Montbrison.
3. ^ Fourme d'Ambert - (formaggio.it).