5 Things
1) Late afternoon light
2) Looking up
3) Delicious winter cheese
4) I never tire of this view
5) Jack fruit - spotted in the 10th arrondissement
Off The Beaten Path: Cheese Shops In Paris
Last week France feted its National Day of Cheese , a day I love to celebrate. (yeah...who am I kidding...I celebrate French cheese pretty much every day!) But it got me thinking about the fromageries here in Paris. There are a handful of famous fromagères and fromagers in the city who are lauded over and over, but what about the minor players? What about the small, off the beaten path cheese shops? What about the passionate cheesemongers with only a few staff members who take precious time off from their already busy schedules to visit farms and find small producers so they can offer new and interesting cheese and dairy to their customers? Let's talk about them. And let's support them! And there is a lot to talk about! I've met classical musicians, bankers and accountants who left their careers to become cheesemongers and to open up their own cheese shops, and there's even an actual dairy in Paris now. I see more and more young people buying up and breathing...
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