Tag: cheese
Cheese: Jérôme Spruytte’s Pont l’Evêque Fermier (Pays d’Auge, Normandy)
Veering off onto the country roads of the Pays d'Auge area of Normandy, let's meet Jérôme Spuytte, one of the few remaining producers of Pont l’Evêque fermier, a farm-made raw-milk cheese.
You know you live in Paris when … Gazelle Horns
He arrives bearing gifts. There’s a box of camembert since he knows that you like cheese. He’s also brought a plastic container of eight cornes de gazelle (gazelle horns).
A Summer Cheese Sandwich Recipe
Re-raise the culinary picnic bar with a summer sandwich recipe. Ingredients:
1. A traditional baguette. 2. Comté cheese aged 18 months. 3. Mustard with truffles.
5 Days in Auvergne, Part V: Mont Dore, Saint Nectaire, Chaudes-Aigues and Yu
The Auvergne diary. In which, over seven years later, the author finally responds to Yu Jia's message: "Too bad parts V and VI aren’t up, I did want to read about Mont Dore and Saint Nectaire."
Paris Restaurant Report: Villa Corse and the Versatility of Brocciu Cheese
When it gets too cold to sunbathe in Corsica, the Isle of Beauty gears up for fromage frenzy. Corinne LaBalme visits Paris's Villa Corse just in time for the beginning of brocciu season.
France Revisited’s Agriculture Show – Name that Cheese Contest
On the occasion of Paris's International Agriculture Show, one of the major annual trade show/fair events in France, guess the cheese in the photo in this post and win an invitation or two to attend the show, which ends on March 3, 2013.
Tasted, Tested in Le Bourbonnais: Saint Pourcain Wines, Auvergne Cheeses, Charolais Beef
In which the author visits Le Bourbonnais, a little-known area of central France in the department of Allier within the region of Auvergne, encounters local cheeses, Charolais beef and Saint Pourcain wines, and gets smart by sticking his head in a saint's tomb.
What if Jack LaLanne’s parents had stayed in France?
The way Jack LaLanne talked about health and fitness on TV reminds me the way that some farmers and organic wine producers in France talk about their products. I wonder: if Jack LaLanne's parent had never emigrated from Oloron Sainte Marie in the Atlantic Pyrenees region of southwest France he might have become famous for producing organic goat cheese... and maybe lived longer.
Must-Tastes of the Normandy Landing Zone: 4 Norman Cheeses
It’s the greenery of inland Normandy that first grabs your attention when arriving from Paris—that and the hedgerows, the apple orchards, the traditional half-timbered homes and barns, the horses, and, most importantly for lovers of French soft cheeses, the cows.