Winter is prime time to explore the dense, concentrated mountain cheeses made in France's Savoie and Franche-Comté regions. These intensely nutty, full-flavored cheeses -- Comté, Abondance and ...

Cows in bucolic splendor. A blue sky pillowed with clouds. Such is life for cheesemakers John and Janine Putnam, owners of Thistle Hill Farm. Taste the couple's Beaufort cheese, made in North Pomfret, ...

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The French have known for a long time that cheese is the answer to many of life’s problems. But only recently has it been used an alternative energy source - one which supplies a year's electricity ...

I often receive Beaufort cheese when I order the 1kg cheese platter from one of my favourite vendors, Fico (tel: 2850 4799). I never wondered about the slight curve along one side of the thick slice ...

A by-product of Beaufort cheese, skimmed whey, is converted into biogas, a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide, at the plant in Savoie You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign ...

Let’s get this straight up front: I’m no skier. But when my French sister-in-law and her athletic husband, who hails from Grenoble (he basically grew up on skis), suggested we meet up for a slopeside ...

A couple enjoy a fondue in Bern, Switzerland (Photo by STEFAN WERMUTH / AFP) An argument in a Paris cheese shop over a fondue taught The Local's Europe editor Ben McPartland that the phrase "the ...

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