Adventures in Cheese
The Peculiar Pleasures of Smelly Cheeses
(attributed to Michael Pollan)
Some speak of French Wine
how in France, a glass of wine is less cheaper than a soft drink
(which I have never experienced or appreciated)
For me it is always more about the Cheese
Not necessarily from the fancy street-front Fromageries, but common grocery stores,
usually the 8 à Huit or Marché Franprix mini-markets (a French gourmet version of your local 7-Eleven convenience store)
I occasionally soak the wine (or Champaign) label off the bottle, but all my cheese wrappers are stuffed into a zip-lock to tabulate upon my return to the USA
Here is my amazing (perhaps embarrassing) Cheese “log”:
Chaussée aux Moines (this is my Every-Day Go-To Paris cheese)
Cheese (Fromage) Links
Selles -sur-Cher
Roblochon
Morbier
Saint-Félicien
Valençay goat cheese
Saint-Marcellin
Tomme de Savoie
Beaufort
Brie
Comté (regularly dubbed “France’s favorite cheese”)
Rustique Camembert
Morbier
Reblochon
Munster Géromé
Ossau-Iraty sharp Basque Sheep’s milk cheese
Saint Albray
St-Marcellin
Sheep Cheese
Vacherin (Mont d’O) potent mountain cheese
Cheese Links
https://wp.me/p3hvvc-2t4
My favorite is Le Super Marché Cheese Plate when I can find one, with a combo of soft, stinky and “dangerous” fromage
(or even that piece of cheese which is marked-down because it is very ripe)
The Cheese Course
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