Hard cylinder, eight by nine inches, weighing twenty pounds.

Rollot or Rigolot
Picardy and Montdidier, France

Soft; fermented; mold-inoculated; resembles Brie and Camembert, but much smaller.  In season October to May.  This is Picardy’s one and only cheese.

Roma
Italy

Soft cream.

Romadour, Romadura, and other national spellings
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland

A great Linburger.  The eating season is from November to April.  It is not a summer cheese, especially in lands where refrigeration is scarce.  Fine brands are exported to America from several countries.

Romano, Romano Vacchino
Italy

Strong:  flavoring cheese like Parmesan and Pecorino.

Romanello
U.S.A.

Similar to Romano Vacchino and Old Monterey Jack.  Small grating cheese, cured one year.

Roquefort
France

King of cheeses, with its “tingling Rabelaisian pungency.” See
Chapter 3.

Roquefort cheese dressing, bottled
U.S.A.

Made with genuine imported Roquefort, but with cottonseed oil instead of olive, plain instead of wine vinegar, sugar, salt, paprika, mustard, flour and spice oil.

Roquefort de Corse
Corsica, France

This Corsican imitation is blue-colored and correctly made of sheep milk, but lacks the chalk caves of Auvergne for ripening.

Roquefort de Tournemire
France

Another Blue cheese of sheep milk from Languedoc, using the royal
Roquefort name.

Rougerets, les
Lyonnais, France

A typical small goat cheese from Forez, in a section where practically every variety is made with goat milk.

Rouennais
France

This specialty, named after its city, Rouen, is a winter cheese, eaten from October to May.

Round Dutch
Holland

An early name for Edam.

Rouy, le
Normandy, France

From the greatest of the cheese provinces, Normandy.

Royal Brabant
Belgium

Whole milk.  Small, Limburger type.

Royal Sentry
Denmark

Processed Swiss made in Denmark and shipped to Americans who haven’t yet learned that a European imitation can be as bad as an American one.  This particular pasteurized process-cheese spread puts its ingredients in finer type than any accident insurance policy:  Samsoe (Danish Swiss) cheese, cream, water, non-fat dry milk solids, cheese whey solids and disodium phosphate.

Ruffec, Fromage de
Saintonge, France

Fresh; goat.

Runesten
Denmark and U.S.A.

Similar to Herrgardsost.  Small eyes.  “Wheel” weighs about three pounds.  Wrapped in red transparent film.

Rush Cream Cheese
England and France