My friend Barbara brought Le Rove des Garrigues to my house for dinner recently, and this little cheese made a big impression.
I'm quite sure I had never tried it, although the distributor tells me the cheese has been available in the Bay Area for several years. How could this pretty thing have escaped my attention?
"Every chef I've sold it to reveres it," says Jesse Schwartzburg, a sales representative for Cheese Works West, the local distributor. Schwartzburg is a salesman, but I don't think he was exaggerating much when he said that many of his customers experience "an epiphany about goat cheese" when they taste Le Rove des Garrigues.
To read the rest of the story, please go to: The San Francisco Chronicle.