20 April 2008

Say "cheese"

Have some cheese. We went to the outdoor market in Saint-Aignan yesterday morning and stood in line at the cheese vendor's stand to get some nice fromages for lunch.

Cheeses from the market

Clockwise from the top, these are:
  1. tomme de Savoie (in the Alps)
  2. camembert de Normandie
  3. chèvre de Mareuil-sur-Cher (near Saint-Aignan)
  4. ossau iraty du pays Basque (SW France)
  5. pur brebis de Corse (Corsica)
It's a kind of Tour de France of cheeses, and all of them are delicious. Nos. 1 and 2 are made from cow's milk. No. 3 is made from goat's milk. Nos. 4 and 5 are ewe's milk cheeses.

In the afternoon we took a drive up through the Sologne to Chambord, stopping along the way in the village called Fontaines-en-Sologne to look around in the church there. A lot of the pews in the church have little plaques, reserving them, I guess from the people who usually occupy them. I liked this one:

Plaque on a pew in a church in Sologne

I bet a lot of people would like to have that name.

News on France Inter radio this morning: President Sarkozy's approval rating as fallen to 36%, the lowest score for a French president since the 1950s, when de Gaulle came in and set up the Fifth Republic. Nicolas Sarkozy has been in office less than a year, and the least you can say is that he hasn't gotten off to a strong start.

3 comments:

  1. I don't know if I'd like a name like that- but it sure seems funny. I think assigned pews in churches happen, but I've never seen pews with nameplates before.

    Your cheeses looked so good, thanks for telling us what each one was.

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  2. Nice lunch, avec une baguette. Never tried goat cheese yet. I don't know if we have ewe's milk. I'll check.

    I would feel very constrained with such a name...

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  3. Miam-miam...j'aime bien le fromage.
    :)

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