Food and Wine Pairings in a Microcosm - One of the best things about living in a traditional food and wine culture is that you don’t necessarily have to be traditional. Living in Burgundy, we enjoy a ...

Anthony Peregrine was a reporter at the Lancashire Evening Post for a decade, before he moved from north-west England to southern France. For the last 37 years, he has freelanced, specialising first ...

Can you brie-live it? A traditional Burgundy cheese has been crowned the winner at the 'world cup of cheese'. The international cheese competition known as the Mondial Fromage et des Produits Laitiers ...

Early this summer, I took a large cheese I had never tried to an outdoor potluck party and set it on the buffet. Guests had brought dozens of other dishes, most of them homemade, but that cheese ...

The Burgundian cheese Soumaintrain resembles the more famous Epoisses yet deserves its own following. It's a specialty of the Yonne, the area in northernmost Burgundy where Chablis is produced, and a ...

It's time for a guided meditation. Imagine you are running slowly through a grassy meadow. You come upon a birthday cake. The cake is large and round and iced with thick, soft frosting. You wedge off ...

Did you know there’s a French cheese so stinky it’s banned on public transport? Époisses de Bourgogne comes from the tiny village of Époisses in Burgundy. It’s made from cow’s milk and gets its potent ...