🧀 What is there to say about cheese, other than the fact that it is delicious and that it makes you smile on pictures? Well, a lot obviously. Where does it come from? What is a good cheese? To that question, the medieval book "Le Ménagier de Paris" answers: "Neither Argos, nor Helena, nor Maria Magdalena, but Lazarus and Martin, with the heaviness of a pontiff". Let's figure out together what that means! Join this week's conversations on https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com Related episodes: le vin (https://youtu.be/e33KVPaNIh0), la baguette (https://youtu.be/6_ats8NlXlc) 🔗 (fr) « Le fromage, pilier de la gastronomie française »: https://www.senat.fr/rap/r07-440/r07-44018.html 🔗 (fr) L’ascension du fromage au Moyen Âge: https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/gastronomie-lascension-du-fromage-au-moyen-age 🎵 Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6i4JjGSsId4CCCVkJuwLHa?si=K0d8KhxkSqqAPq8_kw5XqQ ☝️ If you enjoyed this episode, please consider: - supporting on https://www.patreon.com/frenchconversationgroup or https://anchor.fm/frenchconversationgroup - subscribe and share 🇫🇷 French Conversation Group meets weekly in Los Angeles, New York or online. It's meant for non native speakers (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to practice their French and have fun. You're more than welcome to join! Check out this link for more info: https://www.frenchconversationgroup.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/frenchconversationgroup/support