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Saturday, July 4, 2015

Port Salut cheese slices from France - where?

Port Salut is a French cheese which you might pick up at your local supermarket or if in France you might buy it for a snack or to make a picnic sandwich en route.

Voila! Two French words or phrases, piquenique, en route. Plus Voila. That's three.

Port Salut cheese was originally made in France back in 1816 by Tappist monks at the a b b a y e (sorry had to spell it out because the spell checker changed it back to the English word (abbey in English) of Port Salut in the Loire region of France. The cheese continued to be at the abbey location nearly 200 years later, as recently as 2005. Production has now moved to another place.

You can buy the cheese in the slices, or wedges (like a nearly triangular slice of a round cake) or a small or big wheel.

The packet describes it as a creamy cheese. Yes, hard enough to make a sandwich slice. But creamy.


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