Roquefort
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France's great sheep's-milk blue cheese, Roquefort has a moist, crumbly white paste veined blue-green and is ripened in limestone caves at Roquefort-sur-Soulzon. Sharp, salty and tangy, with a buttery, peppery bite.
Picking a good onedrag
Pearly paste, even blue-green veinsForeign fuzz or slime, lasting ammonia
Well wrappedEveryday bestMade from raw milk. Pregnant, over 65, a child or low immunity? Cook it till steaming hot (Listeria).
The cut faceSame, a touch dry at the cut
Press the pasteDrier at the cut, moist inside
Smell once unwrappedJust as sharp, nothing chemical