Osotogary
04-05-05, 10:17 PM
Do you know the answer?
(I hope this passes muster, Yellowwing.)
yellowwing
04-06-05, 08:42 AM
Johhny Carson said that he was at the French Open tennis tournement once. He was surprised when the background louspeaker music started playing our Marine's Hymn!
Of course that was a long time ago.
yellowwing
04-09-05, 04:49 AM
French Mobilization
French mobilize to save cheeses under threat of extinction
AFP, Apr 8 2005 (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1548&ncid=1548&e=7&u=/afp/20050408/lf_afp/afplifestylefoodfrance_050408143912)
PARIS (AFP) - A worrisome trend is looming in this country of cheese-lovers, where the nation's rich palette of 1,000 cheeses is being nibbled away at with the annual demise of several varieties.
"In 30 years, more than 50 have been struck off the menus as the proportion of industrial cheeses continues to grow while cheeses made from unpasteurised milk only represent seven percent of our consumption," said Veronique Richez-Lerouge.
She is the president of an association formed to protect France's unique cheeses, the focus of Friday's fourth national cheese day.
"The Mont-d'Or galette, which had been produced for some 400 years, disappeared this summer following the death of the last producer who knew the secret of how to make it," she said.
Guy Martin, a Michelin three-star chef, serves up in the Grand Vefour in Paris another threatened variety, Termignon blue, which is made in southern Maurienne close to the Italian border.
For national cheese day, the association wants to mobilise the French to confront this "looming disaster" which has been triggered for different reasons...[story continues with more cheese horror]