STATUE TO CHEESE INVENTOR.
A statue to a modest Normandy farm woman who about a century and a half ago invented the now faniour Camcmbort cheese is to he unveiled next Sunday week in the little town of Yiraontievs, in the Department of the Orne. The delicious Normandy cheese took its name from the village of Caraembort, where its inventor had her little Turin, about a mile from Vimonticrs. The woman’s name was Marie Hard, and die was born in 1761, Her husband had. a number of cows, and as he found difficulty in disposing of all the milk his wife thought of making some now kind of cheese.
This was such a, success in the village that her husband took it to the market of Argentan, at the time one, of the loading markets in Normandy. Marie Hard called her cheese Cainenibert, and it sold so well that a little fortune was made out of it, and Caiiiembert cheese soon developed into an important industry.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3378, 13 June 1927, Page 8
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