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cheese
cheese book
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food and drink books
French cheese
French travel books
James Martin
Ned Palmer
Saturday Kitchen
wine and winemaking
Product details
- ISBN 9781788166942
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Winner of the John Avery Award at the André Simon Awards 2024
In A Cheesemonger's Tour de France, Ned Palmer wends his way around the country's regions, meeting the remarkable cheesemongers who carry the torch for France's oldest and most treasured traditions. Every French cheese carries an essence of the place where it's made - its history, identity and landscape. Sometimes that's a physical thing, as the hard texture of Comté echoes its mountainous home in the Jura. Other times it's about power and politics - Brie swelling to royal dimensions due to its proximity to the French court, or Camembert gaining national status after being supplied in patriotic boxes to First World War soldiers.
Witty, fascinating and endlessly moreish, A Cheesemonger's Tour de France is the perfect guide to a French cheeseboard - and a terrific insight into la Belle République.
Ned Palmer runs the Cheese Tasting Company, whose unique events pair cheese with wines, beers, whiskies and history. After studying philosophy, theatre and experimental psychology, he worked as a jazz pianist and hospital porter, before helping out on a stall at Borough Market led him into a life of cheesemongering.
