The cheese adventures begin!
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| Blues at La Grande Epicerie |
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| Lunch yesterday |
Since the first week when I said that we had not had any interesting cheeses yet, a lot has happened. We've had a couple of fantastic cheese plates at restaurants, the cheese shop in our building reopened after August vacation, and we found the cheese counter at La Grande Epicerie. (We haven't been to the cheese shop in our building yet, but that's only because we bought too much at La Grande Epicerie that we are trying to work through. Update: We have been several times now, and their cheese is fantastic, especially their Beaufort d'été.)
For lunch yesterday, pictured above, we had a Comté, a Buchette Cendrée, and L'Occitan. You can get good Comté in the US (e.g., Zingerman's), so I've had that several times before. I'd never had the other two. They were fantastic. L'Occitan (also called Cathare?) was a very creamy, almost oozy, chevre from the south of France with ash on the outside. Buchette Cendrée was also a chevre with a coating of all kinds of weird-looking stuff and an interior of rich, smooth, sweet chevre. So good.
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| The cheese platter at Ferrandaise---all from the Auvergne region |
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Above, you can see the selection of cheeses from Auverngne at a restaurant near our apartment. Finally, the cheese plate at Semilla, pictured right, had a sheep's milk blue, le Regalis, a fresh chevre, la Bouyguette, and a Saint-Nectaire from fermier Morin.
My favorite so far? Yikes, very hard to say. Maybe the Buchette Cendrée. I also loved the Beaufort d'été and Anna and Kate loved the Cantal Entre-Deux (neither pictured here).
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