Looking back on the past...

7000 years before Christ, hunters became graziers, and realized that milk could solidify : the taste was different. Then, cheese was made all over the world. Thistle flowers and green fig juice were used by Romans as rennet. In many abbeys, the monks, who were clergymen as well as writers and graziers and cookers ... and jolly fellows, perfected the munster (munster comes from "monasterium", i.e. "monsastery") Saint Paulin and Maroilles ripening technique, which soon spread throughout European countries.

In 1953, the Stresa Convention, ratified by France, Italy, Swiss, Austria, Scandinavia and Holland screened certain national sorts of cheese (Parmesan, Roquefort, Gorgonzola) from conterfeiting. Then in 1968, cheese was advertised on T.V. for the very first time (with Boursin), and in 1975, the first "guaranteed origin" label was attributed to Roquefort cheese.