Cheese

Product Description

Following the enormous success of her first book The Cheese Room Patricia Michelson now unlocks the door of her award-winning Marylebone Village store La Fromagerie to share her knowledge & explore the world of artisan cheese. She derives ongoing inspiration & fantastic produce from the many small independent cheese producers around the globe who supply her. For Patricia these producers are unsung heroes
- a source of great delight & a fount of knowledge. The book charts her cheese journey explaining how one food source has inspired & supported a shop a cafe & an international network of small producers from the Savoie in France home to raclette comtoise via the British Devon countryside & Colston Bassett Stilton to the Lombardy hills of Italy & its celebrated taleggio valsassia. By taking the reader on a journey both geographical & inspirational Patricia shares her own sense of discovery in her fascinating stories about the wonderful artisan cheeses from around the world. Patricias travellers tales are followed by explanations of the personalities of her many favourite cheeses as well as over a hundred accompanying recipes. Patricias enthusiasm for cheese & incredible knowledge are universally admired & hugely infectious
- qualities that create a book of distinction & quality.