Mimolette
Cheese
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Mimolette is a hard, bright-orange French cow's-milk cheese shaped like a flattened ball, prized for its vivid pumpkin colour, its dry pitted "moon-crater" rind, and a nutty, faintly fruity flavour that deepens to caramel and butterscotch with long ageing.
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Vivid orange, full, dry crustDried, holed, stray mould
Wrapped wedgeEveryday bestMost Mimolette is pasteurised, which the NHS counts safe in pregnancy. Labelled lait cru? US CDC tells pregnant, 65+ and immunocompromised people to eat it steaming hot.
The cut faceColour true, the open face a shade duller
The rindCratered crust, brushed or scuffed smoother in places