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France

appellation: Appellation d’Origine Protégée (AOP)

place: Jura Mountains, eastern France

milk: cow (in practice, nearly all Montbéliarde), raw

type: large, cooked-curd, pressed, aged, hard

size: wheels, 55 to 75 cm (about 22 to 30 inches) in diameter, 8 to 13 cm (a little more than 3 to a little more than 5 inches) thick, weighing 32 to 45 kilos with an aver…