AUG 04
11:00 pm
Monday

Cheese Slices

Massif Central And The Auvergne

SBS Food

The rugged plateau of the Massif Central and Auvergne is famous for rich green pastures and its six benchmark AOC French cheeses. Will explores the differences between three semi hard varieties that date back to the pilgrims of the 12th century , and visits a disused railway tunnel where more than three thousand cheeses are matured. Then it’s off to a cow fair where the locals celebrate the annual transhumance and a visit to the medieval village of St Nectaire and a troglodyte dwelling where cheese is still matured on rye straw

AUG 05
11:00 pm
Tuesday

Cheese Slices

Washed Rind Cheeses Of France

SBS Food

There is nothing like the strong seductive smell of washed rind cheeses to bring back evocative memories of a visit to France. Will travels to the misty Vosges Mountains of Alsace, the green undulating countryside of Normandy and the pretty village of Epoisse in Burgundy to look at four benchmark monastic cheeses. These are Munster, Pont L’eveque, Livarot and Epoisse. These luscious stinky cheeses have a long history but until recently were threatened with extinction and their growing popularity today is largely due to the vision and hard work of a few very passionate family owned dairies.