Archive for the ‘France’ Category
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
Yet another diversion from British and other UK cheeses. Selles-sur-Cher is an AOC-protected (one of the first), unpasteurized goats milk cheese made in the commune of Selles-sur-Cher, in the Loir-et-Cher region of France. The cheese is sold in small discs that have been coated in ash and then ripened between ...
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
Carre du Berry is a fresh, pasteurized goats milk cheese (ripened about one week) from Berry, in the Loire region of France. It comes in a 4 inch square and is covered in herbs d' provence, juniper berries, and peppercorns. The cheese is visually wonderful, so it's a natural for ...
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Les 3 Comtois' makes a very straight-ahead version of Morbier. Les 3 Comptois is located in Poligny, in the Franche-Comté region. They have won many medals in the past few years for this Morbier.
The cheese is made from unpasteurized raw cows milk that is aged for 4 months. It has ...
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
With the delay in posting, I've honestly forgotten where I picked up with sexy little number. It might have been Whole Foods or DiBruno Bros.
Mons-Cazelle de Saint Affrique is a wonderful sheep's milk cheese from the Saint Affrique area in Southern France. The above link to the Whole Foods blog ...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
My first cheese shop stop in London was La Fromagerie in Westminster. There are basically two areas: the dry room and the cheese room. The cheese room is a relatively small, glass-enclosed room that is sealed off by a large sliding glass door from the dry room. It is an ...
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
[gallery] Langres had been on my list of cheese to try for quite a while after reading Steven Jenkins' Cheese Primer. However, Langres is traditionally made with unpasteurized milk and is ready to consume after only 15 days, much less than the 60 days required by the FDA. While in ...
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
This was the second cheese I picked up while visiting Murray's in Grand Central Terminal's Market in New York. Cabécou Feuille (a dialect word from Languedoc that means "little goat") is a small button (30 grams) of goat's milk cheese from Périgord in France.
This little morsel is wrapped in chestnut ...
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