C is for Camembert: a Normandy village with a story

Visiting Camembert, a village, cheese legends and the museum "Maison du Camembert"

The tiny village of Camembert is not far from John and Sally so we spent an afternoon learning all about this iconic French cheese.
According to legend, Marie Harel, a farmer in the village developed the definitive recipe in 1791! Such an interesting story linking a priest from the region of Brie who she sheltered and from whom she learnt about cheese, to the role of Napoleon III in making camembert famous and then during WWI, a million boxes a month sent to the French soldiers. And now the most famous of all French cheeses.
We tasted, bought gold award 'lait cru' camenbert for dinner, so yummy.