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June 29, 2005
Cheese lunch with Tomette des Alpes
Tomette des Alpes is a cow and goat milk cheese from the Haut Savoie region of France's Rhone-Alpes. It has a quite a terrifying rind, very hard and thick and not really that good (yes, I tried). The cheese is pretty good, "like muddy cheddar" a coworker said. It does sport a cheddar-like flavor but not at all sharp and instead very earthy and mushroomy. I'm not sure I liked this cheese - it felt a little uneven. But it still made a great lunch:
People who claim that cheese is only for appetizers, snacks, or to be melted on things are plain wrong.
I used Ryan's awesome camera to take pictures of this cheese.
The crazy rind:
The insides:
Posted by maggie at June 29, 2005 12:36 AM