Article: Maine's big cheese of global marketing ; The Portland firm's task: sell Americans on cheese from France.

TUX TURKEL Staff Writer
Portland Press Herald (Maine)
02-09-2007
Maine's big cheese of global marketing ; The Portland firm's task: sell Americans on cheese from France.
Byline: TUX TURKEL Staff Writer
Edition: FINAL
Section: Business
Column: Small Business: Profile

French cheese is easy to find in America. Creamy Camembert, soft Munster: it's all made in the U.S.A. Farmers are producing handcrafted chevre - goat cheese - right here in Maine.

But there's a difference between French cheese and cheese produced in France.
France has 400 varieties of cheese; the average resident eats 50 pounds a year; "terroir," the soil and region from which a cheese comes, holds a distinct magic; revered ...

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