Comments on: Washed Rind Stinky Cheeses http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/blog/all-about-cheese/stinky-washed-rind-cheeses/ You Have To Eat, So Learn To Cook & Eat Well Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:07:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Spencer Howell http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/blog/all-about-cheese/stinky-washed-rind-cheeses/comment-page-1/#comment-97551 Spencer Howell Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:38:20 +0000 http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/blog/?p=1750#comment-97551 We stayed in a small hotel which looked like a small chateau near Pont en Bessin while visiting the Omaha Beach area. The restaurant offered a cheese selection for desert which included a "stinky" one. When I ate my sample the taste was an incredible mixture of walnuts and some liquor, maybe brandy...it was incredible. Does my description fit any one of your listings? I would love to buy some here in the USA. Thank you. <em>Hi Spencer, It sounds like Echourgnac a la Noix. This cheese is made by Trappist nuns and soaked in a walnut liqueur. Very expensive and yes, hard to find in the USA. - RG "Made in a Périgord monastery by nuns, Echourgnac is a round, semi-hard cow’s milk cheese, infused with local walnut liquor. During the maturing process, the cheese is washed off with walnut water, which gives the rind a beautiful rich brown color and allows the walnut flavor to slowly permeate the cheese.”</em> We stayed in a small hotel which looked like a small chateau near Pont en Bessin while visiting the Omaha Beach area. The restaurant offered a cheese selection for desert which included a “stinky” one. When I ate my sample the taste was an incredible mixture of walnuts and some liquor, maybe brandy…it was incredible. Does my description fit any one of your listings? I would love to buy some here in the USA.
Thank you.

Hi Spencer, It sounds like Echourgnac a la Noix. This cheese is made by Trappist nuns and soaked in a walnut liqueur. Very expensive and yes, hard to find in the USA. - RG

“Made in a Périgord monastery by nuns, Echourgnac is a round, semi-hard cow’s milk cheese, infused with local walnut liquor. During the maturing process, the cheese is washed off with walnut water, which gives the rind a beautiful rich brown color and allows the walnut flavor to slowly permeate the cheese.”

]]> By: Lisa DaeGorn http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/blog/all-about-cheese/stinky-washed-rind-cheeses/comment-page-1/#comment-92966 Lisa DaeGorn Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:23:44 +0000 http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/blog/?p=1750#comment-92966 When I am looking for a good cheese I just put my nose down and sniff! The nose knows! When I am looking for a good cheese I just put my nose down and sniff! The nose knows!

]]> By: hotTamale http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/blog/all-about-cheese/stinky-washed-rind-cheeses/comment-page-1/#comment-89216 hotTamale Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:41:22 +0000 http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/blog/?p=1750#comment-89216 This is a fascinating and very informative article! Your explanation of how these wonderful cheeses achieve their complex stinkiness is something I've wondered about. I also love your top 15 list of the stinkiest as well! May I quote you in my blog about cheese? This cartoon is fabulous-- what would I need to do to be able to use it in my blog?? Please email me. Thanks! <em>Glad you enjoyed the article. Of course you may quote a sentence or two from the article, please just don't copy the entire article or big chunks of it. Also appreciate that you like the cartoon but it is copyrighted and cannot be used on your blog but thanks for asking and respecting my work. - RG </em> This is a fascinating and very informative article! Your explanation of how these wonderful cheeses achieve their complex stinkiness is something I’ve wondered about. I also love your top 15 list of the stinkiest as well! May I quote you in my blog about cheese?

This cartoon is fabulous– what would I need to do to be able to use it in my blog?? Please email me. Thanks!

Glad you enjoyed the article. Of course you may quote a sentence or two from the article, please just don’t copy the entire article or big chunks of it. Also appreciate that you like the cartoon but it is copyrighted and cannot be used on your blog but thanks for asking and respecting my work. - RG

]]> By: Eleonora (Lola) http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/blog/all-about-cheese/stinky-washed-rind-cheeses/comment-page-1/#comment-89195 Eleonora (Lola) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:07:01 +0000 http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/blog/?p=1750#comment-89195 You must not forget Puzzone di Moena, one of Italy0s stinkiest cheeses!!! I loved this feature. Maily because of my passion for cheese. My epitaph will read "she died by cheese" Ciao Lola xx You must not forget Puzzone di Moena, one of Italy0s stinkiest cheeses!!!

I loved this feature. Maily because of my passion for cheese. My epitaph will read “she died by cheese”

Ciao
Lola xx

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