Mimolette is popular throughout France among cheese novices and connoisseurs alike. This is a good "starter cheese," and, if you are willing to part with it, is a good way to introduce cheese to the palates of your kids or some of your less cheese savvy friends whose idea of cheese is Velveeta. Mimolette is also called Boule de Lille; boule translates to ball, scoop or bowl, and the village of Lille is the location of the cellars where the cheese was first ripened.