March 31st, 2010

Tete de Moine

As promised, another cheese review.  What a chore! Tete de Moine is an old monastery-style mountain cheese whose name translates to “monk’s head”. Traditionally it is sliced horizontally with a girolle to create ruffled, very thin rosettes. Once the top part of the rind is taken off, it resembles the bald top of a monk’s […]