Dictionary definition: Roquefort

Article: FEATURE/New Roquefort Lovers Website Airs Beefs O Food ...
Business Wire;  September 10, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE FEATURES)--Sept. 10, 1999-- Roquefort Cheese Taken Hostage in Food Fight; Roquefort Lovers Petition President and Hillary Clinton Roquefort lovers have had enough. Of the government, that is, not of their ...

Article: FEATURE/New Roquefort Lovers Website Airs Beefs Over ...
Business Wire;  September 10, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE FEATURES)--Sept. 10, 1999-- Roquefort Cheese Taken Hostage in Food Fight; Roquefort Lovers Petition President and Hillary Clinton Roquefort lovers have had enough. Of the government, that is, not of their ...

Article: Bush War on Roquefort Raises a Stink in France; Departing ...
The Washington Post;  January 29, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... in a remote part of southern France, Roquefort clings precariously to the side of Combalou ... has delighted gourmets for centuries: Roquefort cheese. And now, in an era of globalized ... it turns out, has declared war on Roquefort cheese. In its final days, the Bush ...

Article: Fed: Cheese lovers rejoice Roquefort's return to dinner ...
AAP General News (Australia);  March 24, 2005 ;     695 words ... ... 24-2005 Fed: Cheese lovers rejoice Roquefort's return to dinner plates By Mark Phillips ... FSNZ) set to approve the importation of Roquefort cheese this year. A decade after it ... comment on the sale of French-made Roquefort, a soft, unpasteurised blue-veined ...

Article: As tensions with U.S. rise, Roquefort makers fear ...
International Herald Tribune;  April 4, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... wealth is being nibbled at, like good Roquefort by mice. First came competition from ... United States knew maybe Camembert, Roquefort and Brie, he says. On a recent trip ... 300 French cheeses on his list. Then Roquefort got caught in no man's land in a trade ...

Article: Into the Deep Blue; France's Famous Caves at Roquefort sur ...
The Washington Post;  December 6, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... with riches that are spectacular to behold. It is the source of the celebrated blue cheese, Roquefort. All the world's Roquefort comes from Roquefort sur Soulzon, a tiny town in the Causses Mountains of southwest France. Perched atop a precipitous ...

Article: Farmers sing the blues in Roquefort's trade war
The Scotsman;  August 14, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... injected with hormones sent the price of Roquefort cheese soaring and sales plummeting, angering ... luxury goods" from Europe, including Roquefort, foie gras and truffles. Sales of Roquefort cheese have fallen by 30 per cent as the ...