Fromage Frais

Does anyone know where I can buy Fromage Frais... and is there another name for it ...as I cannot find in any of the shops.

Many thanks...

Frischkäse: fromage frais
obviously there are different types of frischkäse...
big supermarkets have big cheese counters and if you are lucky, you can even try some cheese there...

Frischkäse is cream cheese, like Philadelphia I thought.

Fromage frais is a French sweet (usually fruity) cheesy yoghurt type thang.

Isn't it? It's what I used to eat when living there anyway.

Edit:
Q. What would I look for in the average grocery store to find lowfat fromage frais?
Step 1: Fly to France.
Step 2: Go to Carrefour or Leclerc or your favorite supermarché.
Step 3: Purchase fromage frais.

What is fromage frais? It is a fresh white cheese, unavailable in all but the most special of specialty shops in the United States. It is a creamy soft cheese made with whole or skimmed milk and cream. In Europe, it is available plain or flavored with fruit or with herbs and spices. It has the consistency of a cream cheese but with fewer calories and less cholesterol.
From here.

I thought "Quark" was the nearest thing to Fromage Frais?

I really don't think so. I'd say its consistency is between yoghurt and sour cream since you can eat it plain (or with fruit, as you said earlier). Ever tried eating Philadelphia cheese by the spoonful?

UA, how would this compare with, say, Quark here in Germany?

I had never come across "fromage frais" until a friend lent me a UK cookbook, where some of the recipes call for it.

edit: Thanks, Uncle Nick!

i got my translation from a german-french food website...

Kay, yes. Beer was involved but yes, I have.
LEO discussion
Fromage Frais is slightly more er... joghurty than Quark (fromage blanc). You could mix quark with yoghurt as an equivalent taste-wise or try Hertie at HBF as I think I've seen it there.
Also, kiddy yoghurts like Petit Filou/Fruchtszwerge tend to be fromage frais.

Kay - that wasn't my opinion, but a quote from the cooking site I linked too.

Cinzia - quark tastes different to me. This topic's been covered somewhere - it's either curds or whey so is also different to fromage frais.

Planetmoni - it's also what dict.leo.org says, and while it is a literal translation, the two taste very different and have different textures...

Edit: great link Katrina - I like Delia Smith's explanation on that discussion thread.

The online dictionaries say 'Frischkäse', but I think Quark is closer...

Quark is utterly rubbish, and used FAR too often in German cooking. Fromage Frais is ace, but used far too often in England. Even Tenglemann sells fromage frais these days, no need to find a substitute.

i use greek yoghurt for my cooking.

UrbanAngel: i used a speiselexikon.