Alouette is a brand of
French-style
cheese
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s produced by the French company
Savencia Fromage & Dairy.
Information
The Alouette Cheese products are: Soft Spreadable Cheese, Crème de Brie, Baby Brie, Crème Fraiche, Élégante, and Crumbled Cheese. Sold throughout the US, its most popular variety is the Crème de Brie, which is spreadable
Brie
Brie ( ; ) is a soft cow's-milk cheese named after Brie (itself from Gaulish ''briga'', "hill, height"), the French region from which it originated (roughly corresponding to the modern of Seine-et-Marne). It is pale in colour with a slight gre ...
Cheese without the rind.
The brand's history began with the arrival of French cheese maker Jean-Noel Bongrain, who immigrated to the United States and continued his profession there.
Advertisements
Two versions of a radio ad for Alouette cheese were run in 2003, using the song ''
Alouette
Alouette or alouettes may refer to:
Music and literature
* Alouette (song), "Alouette" (song), a French-language children's song
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''. They were heard only on
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in
New York
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Alouette cheese once announced the launch of "Eat Artfully," the brand's summer media campaign. The campaign comprises a series of humorous cooking tutorials intended to poke fun at recipe videos that are easy to watch, but impossible to make.
Events
On October 15, 2012, Alouette cheese was used for the Master Holiday Chef Challenge. Consumers were able to vote for their favorite chefs and recipes online.
On February 16, 2012, Alouette started to produce new kinds of spreadable cheddars, Sharp Cheddar Cheese and Bacon Cheddar Cheese - which are Kosher certified and gluten-free.
See also
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List of spreads
This is a list of spreads. A Spread (food), spread is a food that is literally spread, generally with a knife, onto food items such as bread or Cracker (food), crackers. Spreads are added to food to enhance the flavour or texture of the food, whic ...
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Cheese
Cheese is a type of dairy product produced in a range of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk (usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats or sheep). During prod ...
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List of French cheeses
This is a list of French cheeses documenting the varieties of cheeses, a milk-based food that is produced in wide-ranging flavors, textures, and forms, which are found in France. In 1962, French President Charles de Gaulle asked, "How can you gove ...
References
External links
*http://www.alouettecheese.com/
American cheeses
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