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Auvergne cheeses: Le St Nectaire

Papou Poustache

30 avr. 2025

St-Nectaire Source de l'article http://www.travelfranceonline.com/st-nectaire/ An entrance in style St-Nectaire labels Saint-Nectaire is a fromage à pâte pressée non cuite (uncooked pressed cheese) exclusively produced from Salers cow’s milk. It is the smallest AOP (Protected Designation of Origin) areas in France but its creamy and dense texture, unique scent and flavour of hazelnuts and mushrooms are unforgettable! The French will tell you that cheese is a king’s delicacy and they might be right when it comes to St-Nectaire… St-Nectaire was named after the Count of Auvergne Henri II de Senectère...

Auvergne cheeses: Le bleu d'Auvergne

Papou Poustache

30 avr. 2025

Bleu d'Auvergne Lien pour accéder au site de provenance de l'article. http://www.travelfranceonline.com/bleu-dauvergne/ Bleu d’Auvergne The Bleu d’Auvergne was granted an AOC in 1975 and is one of the five AOP cheeses of Auvergne. It is a blue cheese or Fromage à pâte persillée produced from pasteurized cow’s milk The notoriety and history of Auvergne cheeses underwent a major change in a period of only 150 years. How a rustic and understated local cheese evolved to become the AOP Bleu d’Auvergne? Discover the story of the Bleu d’Auvergne! As you can imagine it didn’t appear in a day… Its story...

Cantal Cheese

Papou Poustache

30 avr. 2025

Cantal Voici un article paru sur le lien ci-dessous Welcome to Auvergne Cantal One of the oldest French cheeses Cantal cheese is a hard or semi-hard cheese that has the form of a large bright yellow cylinder. It is produced in the Monts du Cantal and is one of the oldest French cheeses as it is known that our Gallic ancestors already produced it more than two thousand years ago! The Fourme de Cantal made an official entry in style as it was served – along with the St-Nectaire and Salers as you might remember – on the table of King Louis XIV thanks to Henri II de Senectere, Count of Auvergne. There...

Les spécialités Auvergnates

Papou Poustache

14 août 2023

Les traditions d'Auvergne: Voici un inventaire presque complet des spécialités auvergnates traitées dans ce blog pour ma part dans l'inventaire il manque l'omelette au Cantal,le pavé de Salers au Bleu d'Auvergne,le fin gras du Mezenc aux girolles....... Grâce au liens sur cet article vous aurez directement accès aux recettes et spécialités. Bonne lecture et bon appétit. La Charcuterie Auvergnate auvergne-des-traditions-la-charcuterie-auvergnate. La truffade cpauvergne.over-blog.auvergne-des-traditions-la-truffade. Le salée au Lentilles tradition-d-auvergne-le-petit-salé aux-lentilles. La potée...