How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
Charles de Gaulle, French army officer and President (1890–1970)
While in de Gaulle's time France may have had 246 cheeses, imagine Marcon's current challenge to govern as we learned that there are more than 1500 nowadays. The 3 Winos relish the diversity!
Our teacher for Saturday's Context's Zoom class "From Camembert to Chevre: An Exploration of French Cheese", Jennifer, is on a mission to taste each and every one of them. She introduced to us the seven families of French cheeses and taught to taste first with our noses.
Once again our local cheese shop, Mickey Mcguire's delivered the tasty samples direct to our door -- how wonderful is that! We revisited the Brie de Meaux, Comte and Roquefort from last week and were introduced to Poitou Chevre and P'tit Basque, an aged sheep milk cheese.
Although COVID curdled our travel plans, we are enjoying tastes of France throughout the pandemic.
S-I-L cooked up Julie Child's coq au vin. Delicious! What could be more delectable than coq au vin by the fire?!
Life is good. à votre santé!
This takes the phrase 'comfort food' to another level!
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