Monday, September 13, 2010
Say cheese
Roquefort is a town built over a number of caves created by landslides (which makes you wonder how secure the town is). Various cheeses that can use the "Roquefort" label are produced in these caves. The milk comes from sheep kept locally, except when they are taken somewhere else to have their lambs, which is what they were doing when we visited. During our guided tour through the caves of one of the producers a man in our party challenged the guide, saying it would be impossoble to produce so much milk in the prescibed area. She smiled and responded with a set of regional and seasonal statistics that appeared to put him in his place. Anyway, the cheeses are lovely.

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