The World Cheese Awards - described as the Oscars of the cheese world - have been held in Bergamo, Italy, and the results will make painful reading for French cheesemakers. France was not present on the winners podium with the world's best cheese award being given to an American product - Rogue River Blue from Oregon. But not only that, in a result described as "sacrilege" by one French newspaper, just one of the top 16 cheeses was French. Organic Blue Cheese Rogue River Blue (USA)2. Gruyère AOP (Switzerland)8.

Source: The Local October 25, 2019 08:37 UTC