This month, our visitors are Jason’s cousin Paul and Paul’s girlfriend Linda. They’re incredibly organised tourists, with itineraries planned, concert tickets pre-purchased and guided tours booked; they’ve planned a solid 9 days. And it leaves me with extremely limited tour guiding duties. The one thing I can offer though, is a trip to the best cheese shop in London, La Fromagerie in Marylebone. Linda is a fellow cheese obsessed fanatic. She spent a very happy 20 minutes in the climate controlled cheese room, overwhelmed by the selection.
For me, a new cheese: Peladron
France, Languedoc
goat
semi soft
Thick medallion shaped soft cheese with natural scraped white crust, which with maturing becomes dotted with blue moulds. A traditional farmhouse cheese with a gentle goaty, nutty tastes and fudgy texture. Best season July and August, with really rich and buttery cheeses appearing in early autumn.