Cheeses from Britain and America have overtaken French rivals at an international cheese competition, drawing scorn from a French newspaper that damned the humiliating defeat as “sacrilege”. A cheddar from Somerset was the highest placed British offering in fourth spot at the World Cheese Awards, held in Bergamo, Italy, with only one cheese in the top 15 for the French — a soft cow’s milk cheese from Burgundy that scraped in at number eight. The top prize was given to a blue from Oregon. The French results prompted outrage from the newspaper Ouest-France, which lamented: “Sacrilege: only one of the 15 top-rated cheeses is French.” It was shocked that “the world’s best cheese is not French”. Despite French assertions as to the superiority of brie,…

Source: The Times October 25, 2019 23:03 UTC