What type of foodstuff is Port Salut?
Port Salut (in 1959), sold the rights to a major creamery. The cheese is now produced in a factory; the characteristic smooth rind the result of a plastic-coated wrapper. The rind is edible, but is made of wax and detracts from the flavour of the cheese. Handmade Port Salut cheese or "Entrammes" cheese is still produced by various monasteries throughout the French countryside. Port Salut Port Salut is a semi-soft pasteurised cow's milk cheese from Pays de la Loire, France, with a distinctive orange rind and a mild flavour. The cheese is produced in wheels approximately 23 cm (9 inches) in diameter,
Port-du-Salut Abbey Port-du-Salut Abbey Port-du-Salut Abbey, also the Abbey of Notre-Dame du Port du Salut (, "Abbaye Notre-Dame du Port-du-Salut" or "Abbaye du Port-Ringeard") is a Trappist monastery located in Entrammes, Mayenne, France. The main monastery building dates from around the 13th century. The Trappist abbey was founded in the early nineteenth century. In 1815, after twenty years of exile due to the suppression of religious orders by Napoleon, the Trappists returned to work in France. More precisely, on February 21, 1815, a Trappist community under Dom Bernard de Girmont, later their first abbot, settled in the empty buildings of a former