In the heart of Normandy, a group of dairy devotees has launched a cultural crusade to protect the authenticity of camembert cheese. Clad in medieval garb and armed with cheese knives, the Brotherhood ...

In France, cheese is paired by region, not grape variety. Here’s how geography decides what goes in your glass.

In 1962, President Charles de Gaulle asked how anyone could govern a country with 246 kinds of cheese, and at the time, that ...

An advert on the side of my train from Caen, some 200km west of Paris, showed a weather map of France. Big cartoony sun symbols covered the whole country. Except for Normandy, where I was, which ...