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What a cheese! What history says about Savoy cheeses by Arnaud Delerce

Name: What a cheese! What history says about Savoy cheeses by Arnaud Delerce
Start: 2025-08-26
End: 2025-08-26
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Everyone knows the stories of the Aravis peasants who “reblochent” to defraud the taxman, or the cardinals of Avignon who tasted Abondance cheese in 1381... But aren't these tales a little too good to be true?

Here's a talk about Alpine cheeses that won't please anyone. Manufacturers, journalists, politicians, farmers, unions, Savoyards, Valaisans and even consumers won't like it. Why not? Because the author explains that the founding myths of the history of some sacrosanct cheeses from the Alps are nothing more than a mythology of characters and situations created from scratch by communicators expert in the art of storytelling. For heaven's sake! The Aravis peasants who “reblochent” to defraud the taxman, the Pope of Avignon who tasted Abondance cheese in 1381, or the doctor from Sion who discovered raclette in 1574: is it all just a bunch of nonsense? But for whom and for what?

Before answering this question, the author invites you to take a walk in the footsteps of true historical cheese. It will take you from northern Poland in Cujavia to Egypt in the tomb of a high priest of Ramses II, via north-west China in the Taklamakan desert. The focus then shifts to the Alps. From the iron mines of Hallsatt in Austria to the alpine pastures of medieval Savoy, verifiable sources reveal the names and nature of real historic cheeses. Surprise? They're not the ones we've been sold!

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