CHEESE AMONG FRIENDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1939, Page 6

CHEESE AMONG FRIENDS

DELICACIES IN FRANCE. There are four hundred kinds of cheese made in France, but some can be eaten only among friends. Of these the Cancoillotte is well known, a cheese made in the Franche-Comte. It is almost more a cream than a cheese. Its colour is greenish, but its odour often makes the bravest hesitate. Real amateurs of this cheese shut themselves up in a room to partake of the delicacy which makes its presence known far around. The Franche Comte is famous, however, for other cheese than this aggressive type, and the best Gruyere comes from this region. Septmoncel. another cheese of Franche Comte, belongs to j the family of blue cheeses, of which the Roquefort is king. Of exquisite perfume, Septmoncel is rare, and even in Franch Comte, is not to be found in all hotels. There are cheese in France which have to be eaten on the spot where they are made, as they cannot stand a journey of even a few miles. In certain parts cheese is made today just as it was made by the Gauls when Caesar invaded the country. Camembert is known the world over, and a statute has been erected to Mme Harel, who made the first Camembert cheese at the village of Camembert, in a picturesque part of Normandy. The statue was erected by an American as an expression of gratitude. for copious meals only of Camembert cheese cured him of serious stomach trouble, he said. He came all the way from the United States to see the place where Camambert was made and left funds for the erection of the statute to its inventor.

There is a cheese restaurant in Paris where cheese amateurs are handed a menu and served a cheese mal.