With Valentine’s day coming up next week, I thought I would post about about my favourite cheese – which just so happens to be heart shaped.
France is well known for the overwhelming variety of cheeses. I once heard that there was a different cheese for everyday of the year. In truth, there are more than 365 different cheeses and some of the lessor known cheeses, made using very traditional methods by only a small number of artisans, are in danger of disappearing from the list altogether. But each cheese is associated with a specific region, and named after that region.
My favourite cheese, however, is made in the area where I live – Neufchâtel-en-Bray, which is in the pays de Bray region of Normandy. Neufchâtel cheese is said to be one of the oldest cheeses in France, and certainly in Normandy – where it is older than the better known camembert and brie.
To read the rest of the story, please go to: Reuters.
