Goat cheese

Fromage de chèvre

What it is

Goats were milked before cows, making this perhaps the oldest cheese lineage on Earth. Loire legend credits the Saracens, halted at Poitiers in 732: they left behind their goats and their cheese recipes, and the valley has been grateful ever since.

In the kitchen

Young and fresh, it loves herbs and olive oil; aged and firm, honey and walnuts. Ten minutes under the grill on bread, and any salad becomes lunch.

Goes with

Beetroot Fig Honey Thyme Walnut Spinach

Also used with

Acacia honey Cervione hazelnut Cévennes sweet onion Chickweed Chioggia beetroot Crapaudine beetroot

In season alongside

Apple Bamboo shoot Begonia petals Blue foot mushroom Borlotti bean Butternut squash

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