fromage blanc

English

Etymology

From French fromage blanc.

Noun

fromage blanc (countable and uncountable, plural fromages blancs or fromage blancs)

A creamy soft cheese made with whole or skimmed milk and cream.
- 1988, Food & Wine: The Guide to Good Taste, volume 11, page 85, column 2:
  Sweet, clean Fromages Blancs – plain, herbed, tomato-garlic-basil and apricot-honey.
- 1995, Georges Perec, “Attempt at an Inventory”, in John Sturrock, transl., Food: The Vital Stuff, Granta, →ISBN, page 90:
  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, 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.
- 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:
  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, New Mexico Magazine, volume 85, page 80, column 2:
  They specialize in fromage blancs and firmer cheeses marinated in herbed olive oil.
- 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:
  Most American fromage blancs are made from whole cow’s milk, are lovely and lightly creamy, and are tantalizing enough in their freshness alone.
- 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:
  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.