Salon du Fromage 2024

 

Flags are flying at Porte de Versailles no matter the rainy ☔️ weather through 3 March

Mini flags 🇪🇸 are flying at the Spanish stand (HO69) at Salon du Fromage second day of a 3-day tasting fair. What a clever way to show a cheese’s origins & to grab a sample 👍

You know I ❤️ anything miniature…many mini flags came home. And 🧀 samples too.

290 purveyors 

Presenting 448 cheese brands 

From 15 countries including Ireland (DO59) and Japan 

That is a lot of cheese 🧀 to taste!

  I didn’t realize cheese is always displayed under transparent domes, though most don’t look like a Swiss Alps 🏔️ slalom.

Perhaps domes capture cheese 🧀 aromas best? They lift the dome. You get a fragrant whiff 👃 like at perfume counters?

This is the first year Salon du Fromage is open to the public. 

Here! Carve yourself a huge hunk of Parmigiana 👍 

You could buy a ticket last month and pay half (15€). If you bought a ticket 🎟️ yesterday (35€).

Ample samples were très abondant

Except, as always for butter 🧈 king, Maison Bordier. Nice display. People waiting patiently. Nothing happening 🙄 I moved on. Maybe you have to go to Saint-Malofor a taste 😀

Of course there are cheese lectures included and cheese contests. The French ❤️ LOVE 🥇 foodie contests/concours. Even an international grilled cheese contest I was sad 😢 to miss.

This looks like an cheese demo taking place.

It’s not. It’s a miniature demo inside a box 😀

And not just cheese 🧀 tasting is on offer

ALWAYS look for the words, ‘Lait Cru’ for best quality from small producers when buying cheese 🧀 in France. ‘Lait pasteurize’ is industrially produced.

Palate chasers - quince & fig paste

I loved ❤️ witty Pavé de Paris (BO92) which looks pavé/ cobblestones on my street. Creamy layers of 🐄 milk + 🐐 milk 👍

Salon du Fromage continues today until 7:00/19:00. You cannot buy the cheese 🧀 on display to bring home.

But go down one floor in Halle 7 and there is plenty to bring home at Salon  d’Agriculture on through Sunday.

I happily brought home my cloves from Mayotte. 100 grams/3 ounces for 5€. Cloves are rare and difficult to hand gather from tall trees. I may go back for another bag..

If you can’t attend the salon today

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