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Mozzarella conquers Paris: Camembert is “undermined” on the tables of France

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Not a national affront, nor a new taste of European food and wine parochialism: let’s call it a dairy armistice. Contrary to Italian prejudice, the French do not feel any rivalry towards Italian food: on the contrary, many of them have deep love and admiration towards Italy.

It is perhaps also for this reason that, for the first time in France, the consumption of mozzarella has exceeded that of camembert. The French newspaper Le Figaro reported that, in September, the sales of the succulent Italian cheese ousted the “king” of French cheeses: «Never before – writes Le Figaro – Italian culinary specialties have been appreciated all over the world, in particularly, in France “.

“For the first time – continues the newspaper – the camembert sales curve, in regular decline of 3% per year, has gone below the sales of mozzarella which, for its part, has an annual growth of 5%”

Fabrice Collier, president of a trade union that brings together Camembert producers from Normandy, added that “from the beginning of the year until 11 September 29,230 tons of camembert were sold across the Alps against 33,170 tons of mozzarella”. The use of these two soft cheeses is not the same, says Collier, calling Camembert “more a table cheese” and mozzarella “a cooking cheese”.

There are therefore different rituals and conditions in the consumption of the two dishes: Le Figaro writes that “Camembert is clearly eaten in restaurants or during more traditional home meals, while mozzarella is good in many easy-to-make and more trendy dishes”.

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Collier does not hide his concern about the commercial future of the jewel of the transalpine cheese industry, which does not seem to be doing very well these days: “In the eighties in France, 180 thousand tons of Camembert were produced, part of which was exported, double the respect till today”.

If exports fall, the demand for gastronomic specialties from the Belpaese increases, of which the French are greedy: it is no coincidence that Paris is teeming with Italian restaurants and that supermarkets in France abound with all kinds of Italian products. Furthermore, our neighbors are the first pizza consumers in the world (even if admitting it would cost them a few points of national pride).

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