What is the difference between Roquefort and blue cheese dressing?
Roquefort is a type of blue cheese that is renowned throughout the world as the ‘King of Cheeses, Cheese of Kings’. Named after the village of Roquefort in Aveyron, in the south of France, this blue cheese is especially infamous for its pungent smell and characteristic blue veins of mold. Equally fascinating is its unique production process. In fact, Roquefort falls under the ‘protected designation of origin’ (PDO) provided by the European Union Law. The PDO defines that Roquefort must be produced following certain regulations, such as the use of milk from a particular breed of sheep, the location in which the cheese is matured, and the type of mold used for the maturation process. Hence, to guarantee the quality and purity of Roquefort, only milk from the Lacaune ewe is processed and cultured with a fungus called Penicillium roqueforti and left to naturally mature in the
