Viewing post #257005 by AnnaZ

Just something here for you to mull around..........I was seeing a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner a couple of years ago (ok, maybe many of you think it is hocus-pocus.........but that's not the issue on this thread). She was big on diet; cheese & dairy products were on the "no" list. That year we went to France to visit my sister and attend her daughter's wedding. Of course, "cheese" is a meal course in itself there, and I tried some of every one on the table at every meal. Even the one with little worms on the rind......no, you don't eat the rind. At least *I* didn't. When we got back I told my practitioner that I was a bad girl, I ate lots of bread and cheese while in France. She said "oh, that is ok, they do things different there and it is NOT the same cheeses as here. They don't process it like here, it is more "natural". And the bread is different too, the flours are different and not like the breads here, processed to hell and gone. Altho I must admit that I never really did develop a taste for the traditional crusty French bread. I much prefer the Italian style with the soft crust. And there was some to be had.

I do agree, tho, that Wisconsin has the cheese market cornered. I LOVE to get 6 or 7 year old cheddar if I'm going to cook with it. To eat plain, not so much unless a good glass of wine with it.