A soft, creamy cheese originally from France with a white moldy rind that you eat by scooping out the inside.
Named after the village of Camembert in Normandy, France, where it was first made in the 18th century. The place name comes from old Norman words. The cheese was popularized during the 1800s and became famous worldwide.
Camembert was almost lost to history—during World War II, the actual village's cheese production nearly stopped, but French producers secretly kept making it, and it became a symbol of French resistance and cultural preservation.
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