French cheese
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Meet Jennifer Greco, better known online as the woman behind the Chez LouLou blog, and a cheese and wine tour guide extraordinaire.
And we're talking cheese. Specifically, the mistake people make while eating it!
Here are some of the points so you can remember, but please listen below (and hang around for a story at the end from Corey Frye - also related to cheese and France's history).
Mistake 1: Taking the cheese straight out of the fridge - get it to room temperature first (at least an hour)
Mistake 2: Cutting the nose off the Brie (don't cut the pointy tip off - it's like taking the heart of the cheese)
Mistake 3: Pre-slicing the cheese (it loses its moisture).
Mistake 4: Serving it as an appetizer (it's more of a separate course before dessert).
Mistake 5: Storing it near other smelly food in the fridge (you should keep it in the drawer). Oh, and don't wrap it in plastic.
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| 0:00.0 | The Earful Tower listeners, how are you? I'm serious. How you doing? Good, good, good, good. Me too. My voice is back. I'm feeling good. We've got another episode out already. Why? Because at some point in the past, I decided that a season of the Earful Tower goes for 25 episodes. And we have a few to catch up on before the season finale on December 13th, which is going to be live |
| 0:21.9 | and it's a, yeah, it's a story you never heard about the Canal Saint-Mautin. |
| 0:26.7 | What's the story? I'm not going to tell you. I'm going to keep us as a surprise. |
| 0:29.5 | And if you want to come along and watch it live, it's going to be at the Poirfamire from 7 p.m. in the 10th hour in Desmond right by the canal. Oh, wonder what that's |
| 0:40.0 | going to be about. Anyway, oh yeah, and tickets are by donation. So if you want to come along, |
| 0:45.2 | make a little donation. If you want to listen, well, it's still going to be free, but if you want to |
| 0:48.6 | make a donation, you're welcome to as well, even if you're in the far reaches of the world. But here comes an episode about cheese |
| 0:55.0 | with Jennifer Greco, who's a cheese expert, and she joined us in the studio, and she's going to be |
| 1:00.3 | followed by Corey Frye, tour guide extraordinaire, who also has a story about cheese and the history |
| 1:06.9 | of France. So that's something to look forward to. And both those guys are going to be at the |
| 1:11.0 | season finale, which is also a Christmas party and a one year anniversary. One year, can you |
| 1:16.1 | believe we started a year ago? Anyway, let's get on with the show. |
| 1:19.5 | Jennifer Greco, Jennifer Greco, welcomeco Welcome to the studio |
| 1:28.4 | Thank you |
| 1:29.1 | That's an interesting last name |
| 1:30.1 | Greco |
| 1:31.1 | Yes my parents |
| 1:32.2 | My grandparents came from Calabria |
| 1:35.4 | Italy on my dad's side |
| 1:37.0 | I would have thought it was Greek |
| 1:38.0 | It means the Greek in Italian |
| 1:40.4 | Greco Roman |
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