Dictionary

fromage blanc en · NOUN

Etymology

From French fromage blanc.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A creamy soft cheese made with whole or skimmed milk and cream.
   • Sweet, clean Fromages Blancs – plain, herbed, tomato-garlic-basil and apricot-honey. 1988, Food & Wine: The Guide to Good Taste, volume 11, page 85, column 2:
   • Seventy-five cheeses, one ewe’s cheese, two Italian cheeses, one Auvergne cheese, one Boursin, two Brillat-Savarins, eleven Bries, one Cabécou, four goats’ cheeses, two crottins, eight Camemberts, fifteen cantals, one Sicilian cheese, one Sardinian cheeses,^([sic]) one Epoisses, one Murols, three fromages blancs, one goat’s-milk fromage blanc, nine Fontainebleaus, five mozzarellas, five Munsters, one Reblochon, one Swiss raclette, one Stilton, one Saint-Marcellin, one Saint-Nectaire, one yogurt. 1995, Georges Perec, “Attempt at an Inventory”, in John Sturrock, transl., Food: The Vital Stuff, Granta, →ISBN, page 90:
   • There are plenty of other fromage blancs that are delicious, but we think that this is the best readily available Spanish one in the states. 2013, John Gorham, Liz Crain, “Sheep Cheese Balls with Rose Petal Harissa”, in Toro Bravo: Stories. Recipes. No Bull., San Francisco, Calif.: McSweeney’s, →ISBN, page 100:
   • They specialize in fromage blancs and firmer cheeses marinated in herbed olive oil. 2007, New Mexico Magazine, volume 85, page 80, column 2:
   • Most American fromage blancs are made from whole cow’s milk, are lovely and lightly creamy, and are tantalizing enough in their freshness alone. 2012, Kirstin Jackson, “Délice de la Vallée Fromage Blanc, California”, in It’s Not You, It’s Brie: Unwrapping America’s Unique Culture of Cheese, Perigee Books, →ISBN:
   • It was certainly an old smell – of that I could be certain. But it was not, I was sure, produced by any of the three thousand one hundred and twenty-six cheeses, yoghurts and fromages blancs that were being stored in the crypt. 2007, Giles Milton, Edward Trencom’s Nose: A Novel of History, Dark Intrigue, and Cheese, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 65:

Forms

Relateds

blanc · fromage

Synonyms

fromage frais