Le Cendrillon and other bits & pieces

It's been a busy day here at "C'est Cheese Please!" what with customers coming in to stock up for the weekend, Luigi the Squeegee making sure that the windows are sparkling clean and getting the new products out in the cases and shelves. It was wonderful walking in this morning to a fridge/freezer that was happily humming along, freezing what needed to be frozen and refrigerating the things that needed refrigerating! Perhaps one day when I am short of topics I will relate the saga of the fridge/freezer but in the meantime, I walk past it ever so often to admire the fine job that it is doing!

I thought today I might chat about Le Cendrillion which you see pictured here. This is an ash covered goat cheese from Quebec which took the title of World Champion in 2009 competing against 2,440 entries from 34 countries. I think that we can be pretty proud of the wonderful cheese producers here in Canada - not only do we produce athletes of the highest caliber as we are enjoying watching at the 2010 Winter Olympics but we also have world class cheese makers. We truly live in the best country in the world and being the modest Canadians that we are, we don't toot our horn often enough!

I am very excited that I will also be carrying some cheeses from another of our great Ontario cheese makers - Glengarry Cheese makes fabulous cheeses such as Figaro, a bloomy rind cow's milk cheese in the style of a Chaource and a washed-rind semi firm, Fleur-en-Lait. These should be in stock here early next week - a yummy way to start a new week!