French Cheeses

All I can say is, I want to try every single type of cheese after I read this book. I have no complained for DK Publishing's Eyewitness Companions series. I have lots books from them (in English or other language) and I enjoy every book I purchased.

DK Publishing does it again! Most Americans can probably only name 4 or 5 types of cheese but here is a book with hundreds of fascinating cheeses. I wouldn't say that all the cheese looks appetizing but the shear variety will keep you reading. Now, when I go to cheese section of a well stocked grocery store I get excited when I see a cheese I read about in the book.

Excellent! DK Publishing does a thorough job with superb photographs and complete information. I am both a photo researcher and professional freelance stock photographer and work in publishing!

I suggest that if you live in the typical USA city or town you do not read 'French Cheese'. It will turn you into a cheese snob and ruin any appreciation you currently have for cheese sold in most USA environments. Since reading this very informational 'French Cheese' book, I have yet to find a good 'live' cheese within an one hour drive plus an hour ferry ride of my home. This commute has driven my cheese costs through the roof. My wine costs are now at new heights too, as the suggestions for compatible wines are so interesting. Now my typical day is to get up very early, catch the morning bus (or drive) to the ferry terminal; take the ferry to the city; then walk a distance to a farmer's market area where I can find cheese and wine within a respectable distance from each other. I find a cheese that is still 'alive', look it up in the book, see what wine the 'French Cheese' book recommends, then go to one of the wine shops in the area and try to find that wine. If I cannot find the wine, back to the cheese shop to see what else they have that matches up with one of the cheese / wine recommendations in the 'French Cheese' book. By the time I get all this done it is time for lunch. I go to the one of the local bakeries nearby and get some 'appropriate bread' to go with some of the cheese and wine I purchased, sit down somewhere and have lunch. Then it is time to head for home. It will take me another couple of hours to get home, so it is just in time to start a dinner of some kind, (which is usually based upon one of 'French Cheese' book's cooking with cheese recommendations). I am also afraid that my travel expenses to Europe (France in particular) are going to increase dramatically since most of the cheeses in the 'French Cheese' book are not exported, (and there are so many cheeses to try). I would write more, but I am running late for the ferry. I wish I had never read this damn book.

My husband and I are Americans living in the south of France for one year. Don't go to live in France without taking this book. This is a beautiful book. It is an encyclopedia of French cheeses. The pictures and the details are superb. It is informative, entertaining and full of cheese facts that even the French people don't know about. You will be able to tell your French friends and the Fromagere more about their cheeses than they want to know. We have left them stunned with our knowledge of cheeses. They just eat the cheeses. They don't read about them.