Fans of European fromage, and those who sell it, were up in arms this week as the government announced a temporary ban on the import of certain unpasteurised cheeses, citing an outbreak of lumpy skin ...

Brie cheese is creamy, pungent, and delicious. However, this famous French fromage could be under threat due to changes in its manufacturing process.

According to Madame Fromage, Brie is nevertheless the cheese Americans most often associate with France. "Supermarkets are full of little round Bries in wooden boxes with rustic packaging," she says.

The cheese is imported from French producers and labeled "brie," but is a pasteurized version specifically for American guidelines. Still considered a brie, but not the traditional raw cow's milk ...

This means that French Brie typically tastes earthy and grassy compared to American Brie’s milder flavor. Brie cheese starts off tasting like milk and a subtle hint of mushrooms, Fuscaldo says.

Many brands and types of Brie jostle for space at American cheese counters, but a discriminating French shopper would probably disdain most of them. In France, the finest Brie is made with raw cow ...

But unlike Brie de Meaux and Brie de Melun, Coulommiers is not an AOC (appellation d'origine contrôlée) cheese, so producers can make it with pasteurized milk and ship it to the United States.

CREAMY, DREAMY: We recently tried two types of brie from Marin French Cheese. Based in Petaluma, Calif., the company is the oldest continually operating cheese company in the United States.

May 4, 2019 / 10:31 AM PDT / CBS San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - The Federal Food and Drug Administration issued a warning that a brie cheese from France may be contaminated with Listeria.