Behold the power of Watso and those rummages in the fridge it seems when cheese is at bargain prices ! Yep there is an art to it and it has a name .
Affinage . is French and is the art of maturing cheese .
Sneaky bugger has been doing it all along with those bargains
Well im new to it but having a fun time reading about it and getting cultured
you were to look up cheese affinage in a dictionary or even in Google, you wouldn’t find much. Perhaps it’s because the word is French. Or perhaps it’s because we, in the States, don’t have a very long history of cheesemaking. Either way, affinage – or cheese refining – is not on the tip of most people’s tongues. And yet, if you’ve ever tasted a European cheese or any aged American artisan cheese, you’re hopefully eating the result of some damn good affinage. So here it goes:
