'Cheese On Wheels' .. Tour de France... Day 3 & 4
....Goat and Ewe Dairy visits and the caves at Roquefort....
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Day3.. begins with some rain ... but there is no dampening our spirits
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...as we wheel across the countryside to a biologique goat farm
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... and now again Ali helps present the cheese... the reason we have come all this way
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at each visit we are sent on our way with a sampling of their great cheese
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and of coarse we need to add a few more samples to our travelling cheese board
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.. oh yes ... by now our little car is renamed 'Le Cave' due to our collection of aromatic goodies
... pictured here in one of our late nite dashes around France
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Day 4 .. begins with a visit to a small ewes milk cooperative on the Larzac Plateau
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... well it looks like a day off for cheesemakers today
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as we enter the dairy it looks pretty modern with pasteurization and lots of new stainless
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..but as we move along to what really happens here...
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..we step back to another time .. the traditional cheese are still being made here
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...and aged in the traditional ways
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the traditional surface molds are allowed to develop...
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.. and develop
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... is it just our imagination or are those things moving !!!
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.. just a closer look at these, before the ammonia drives us out
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and now for the best part of all ...
tasting and buying more to pack into 'Le Cave'
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The 'Cheese Queen' Ricki thinks that this cheese will fit into 'Le Cave' too
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It has been a pretty long day already but like most days on this trip we end it with
the '2 hour' driving tour of France...
it just seems like 5 hours |
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| the caves at Roquefort were really quite impressive |
and off we go to Carmejane.. the cheesemaking school in Provance... |
we arrive late and are greeted by our new french friends and a wonderful dinner |
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| .. followed by more cheese.. you would think our enthusiasm for this would be less by now.. |
Ali and Alyce reviewing the events so far.. has anyone seen Ali's shirt? |
.. a very late ending with lots of wine, song, and new friends |
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