Cheese: A story of place and people. How is that cheese is so universal, yet so unique from one little place to the next few miles down the road? Ned went for an adventure all over France to find an answer on "what is French Cheese?" and "why do we love it so much?" while looking for the most representative cheeses that tell this story. Along the way, he discovered many more extraordinary and surprising details about the history of the villages, cheesemakers and cheesemongers of France. How do some of them still clinging on, on their traditional ways? On mountaintops, through rainy autumns. harsh winters or spring and summer? What cheese and revolution have to tell us about the making of a nation? Ned's book is extraordinary, fascinating and full of individual powerful characters, as pungent and sophisticated at the same time as the cheeses that they create! Join us on the first part of the interview today, to find out the history of French Cheese, and it's survival through the industrial and technological revolutions until this day. Ned's book is out on Thursday 3rd of October and you can get it on all good bookshops, plus you can order it online: https://www.waterstones.com/book/a-cheesemongers-tour-de-france/ned-palmer/9781788166935 Enjoy! Thom Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. If you love to time-travel through food and history why not join us at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.