LUXEMBOURG (CN) — A Swiss cheesemaking group was left blue on Wednesday after the European Union’s second-highest court rejected a request for protected status for the country’s famed Emmentaler ...

GENEVA — Switzerland’s most famous cheese, the holey Emmental, is raising a stink. Swiss makers of the cheese, the country’s biggest agricultural export, are looking to protect its name from ...

The holes are the trademark of Emmental cheese, making it synonymous with Swiss cheese worldwide. But are the holes in danger ...

BRUSSELS, May 24 (Reuters) - Emmentaler cheese cannot be trademarked in the European Union as the German public sees it as a type of cheese rather than by its geographical origin, Europe's second-top ...

Just weeks after Switzerland’s second-biggest bank was forced into a government-brokered rescue, the country’s producers of Emmentaler cheese lost a fight for exclusive European Union-wide rights to ...

Emmentaler is a traditional German cheese product, and is Germany’s second most exported cheese. More Emmentaler is imported to France and to Italy than to any other country in Europe. However, not ...

Cheese production started in the area east of Bern over 200 years ago. It's a hilly region, so good for cattle grazing. 17,700 tons of Emmentaler are produced each year in this region by 150 family ...

Rebecca Flint Marx is the former editor of Eater at Home. Her areas of expertise include home cooking and popular culture. It’s little wonder that fondue is the national dish of Switzerland, a country ...