With a shield of Comté, a lance of baguette
By shane_curcuru@d... - Fri, 11/07/2008 - 8:56am.
Since after a long night of election partying, you need a nice hearty cheese plate to get you going the next morning - and Cambridge will soon have it's own knight of cheese:
On Monday (Nov. 10), the Consul General of France in Boston will present the medal of the French Order of the “Mérite Agricole” — translation: “agricultural merit” — to (Formaggio owner) Gurdal for his passion for French fare.
I figure that now we have a new world order, we're probably not supposed to make as much fun of the French anymore, eh? I do find it odd that his cheese shop uses the Italian name, however.
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It's not "Italian"...
It's a kind of French cheese made in a region by the same name. The most popular (in France) cheese, too.
Comté (also called Gruyère de Comté) is a French cheese made from unpasteurized cow's milk in the Franche-Comté region of eastern France.
Sidenote: Adam, apparently "_" in a URL upsets Drupal's lazy-user-auto-URL thingamabobber. An urgent item for your to-do list :-P
Italian
I believe that Shane is referring to the fact that the shop is named Formaggio.
whoops
I need to read more carefully...
not odd at all
First, Italian is pronounced more regularly or similarly to English than French. What kind of horrible pronounciations of "Fromage" would you hear?
Second, Italians and Italy are more popular than the French and France.
Italians and Italy are more
With whom?
Popular Italians
With whom?
Everyone outside of France.