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posted on August 01, 2008
Quebec to allow raw-milk cheeses
By: INGRID PERITZ
Published: July 31, 2008 at 7:12 PM EDT
Source: Globe and MailMONTREAL — Quebec has taken a new step toward culinary uniqueness: It will allow its cheese makers to produce the kind of stinky, oozing, unpasteurized bries and camemberts that are illegal in the rest of North America.
The government has modified regulations to allow the production and sale of raw-milk cheeses that have been aged for less than 60 days.
Elsewhere, such young cheeses are verboten due to health concerns. But producers in Quebec, which leads the country in raw-milk cheese consumption, have been lobbying the province for years to change the rules.
They believe such raw-milk cheese is not only healthy, but pasteurization destroys microbes that give their product a deep, palette-pleasing flavour.
“We are very pleased by what is being put on the table. It will bring about a new wave of soft cheeses and raise them to a completely new gustatory level,” said Nancy Portelance, who represents 17 artisan cheese makers in the province.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec-to-allow-raw-milk-cheeses/article700358/
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