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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2009 3:58:42 GMT
Do you give preference to the cheese of your country or do you need the foreign stuff? How about local copies that have stolen the names of foreign cheeses?  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 21, 2009 4:43:26 GMT
I do not live in the land of great cheeses. I miss good old cheddar, which I can only find occasionally. I really miss Romano cheese, which is not a US cheese. There are Mexican cheeses I like, but again, they are not great cheeses.
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Post by cigalechanta on Jun 21, 2009 5:48:25 GMT
I am a huge chevre lover but like some of the local goat cheeses
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2009 10:32:49 GMT
Have always loved good cheese and rarely subscribe to the processed stuff they call cheese as featured in the picture.
I'm curious, are these prevalent overseas? Are there major name brands like in the US?
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Post by imec on Jun 21, 2009 13:59:55 GMT
I love good cheese. Until fairly recently it's been very difficult to get really good Canadian made cheese beyond the excellent Cheddars we have produced (or copied if you like) for many years. Now, specialty cheese producers have begun to emerge in Quebec, New Brunswick, BC (mainly goat cheese) and Ontario. There are Trappist monks in southern Manitoba that make a very nice semi-soft, raw milk, washed rind cheese.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2009 15:18:20 GMT
Frankly, I am not a huge cheese eater. I can forget about cheese for weeks sometimes.
I would say that nearly all of the cheeses that I eat are French or Italian, with some Swiss and Dutch thrown in from time to time.
Interestingly enough, cheddar is called chester in France. It used to be quite common but now it seems to be disappearing.
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Post by imec on Jun 21, 2009 15:26:22 GMT
Interestingly enough, cheddar is called chester in France. It used to be quite common but now it seems to be disappearing. I wonder if that's not arisen out of confusion with another English hard cheese, Cheshire, which is named after the county in the northwest in which the city of Chester resides? The village of Cheddar, is in the southern county, Somerset. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 21, 2009 15:46:54 GMT
From what this says, the French are accurately referring to Cheshire cheese, but by a historical name. Here is the pertinent part of the article, which appears to have been either translated into English or written by someone whose native tongue is not English. The cheese carries the names of the county in the northwest of England from which it comes, Cheshire, in former times County OF Chester, with the capital Chester. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2009 16:20:01 GMT
Anyway, whether or not they are two different cheeses, generally only chester is found in France. And I've never seen stilton or those other things in France -- or I would have bought them to try them.
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Post by imec on Jun 21, 2009 16:20:31 GMT
Exactly. I wonder why they call Cheddar, Chester too.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2009 17:03:51 GMT
Anyway, whether or not they are two different cheeses, generally only chester is found in France. And I've never seen stilton or those other things in France -- or I would have bought them to try them. Are there not any specialty cheese shops that carry these? No Stilton? This can't be right. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2009 17:09:23 GMT
I'm very certain that there are specialty shops. I just cannot imagine going to a British specialty food shop, although I did very much enjoy going to the Marks & Spencer supermarket section before they pulled out of France (and many other countries).
Actually, at M&S I usually bought their hummus and their Indian items.
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Post by cigalechanta on Jun 21, 2009 17:50:28 GMT
I love French goat cheese as well as some American ones made in my section of the country.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2009 18:19:00 GMT
I just went and ate some stilton because I needed to be reminded apparently how fortunate we are to have it available in the grocery. That still boggles my mind somehow.
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Post by lagatta on Jun 21, 2009 20:22:58 GMT
Indeed, stilton is wonderful. I'd say it is most similar to Gorgonzola among cheeses you might know (hey, Wikipedia agrees with me!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilton_cheese but it is even better. I can't think of any French blue that reminds me of Stilton. I love cheese. Only the expense and the high calorie/cholesterol count prevents me from eating it three times a day, though I am also somewhat lactose-intolerant, so I have to go very light on cow's milk cheeses, though aged cheese has far less lactose than that nasty milk (from the standpoint of the lactose-intolerant - an article on the effects thereof would fit right into our free clinic page alongside the boils on bums and laxative weight-loss products). Do also miss Marks and Spencer, which closed first all its Canadian branches then all its continental European ones. The one in Paris also had very nice, well-located public toilets, with no obligation to buy anything or feel sheepish... |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2009 20:43:36 GMT
Since the French eat tons of Gorgonzola, that is probably why Stilton has not made inroads on the continent.
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Post by spindrift on Jun 21, 2009 21:29:46 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 22, 2009 0:04:48 GMT
Did you gorge yourself on cheddar?
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jun 22, 2009 0:40:59 GMT
Spindrift, do you know a Wookey Hole when you see one?
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Post by spindrift on Jun 22, 2009 18:33:49 GMT
Ha! I know Wookey Hole very well! (have you been there?)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2009 17:02:52 GMT
If any cheese lovers want to drool, they can wander around this site. |
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Post by existentialcrisis on Oct 22, 2009 8:34:58 GMT
In Quebec they produce a pretty good cheese called OKA. Mostly though I find myself buying big bricks of old cheddar. Can't help it, I love the stuff. But I love all cheese very passionately. I wish we had the selection here that they have in Europe. I wish I could enroll in some sort of cheese education course  |
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