"Say Cheese"Since we have arrived in Neuchatel this past January to attend French language studies, we have had a fellow student that was kind enough to share with us a part of the Switzerland culture ~ cheese!
As you can see from the photographs we had a variety of cheeses to try! Each one was more delicious then the next and what's even better than eating cheese....you would have to enjoy it with warm delicious bread. My favorite is the little round cheese in these pictures. When you cut through it, the center had thin layer of a variety of herbs.
I was reading recently that the average Swiss goes through almost 20 kilograms (that's 44 lbs) of cheese in a year. The favorite cheeses here are Mozzarella, Gruyere and Raclette. When we go each week to the grocery store is takes some time to look at the large varieties of cheeses to choose from. One type of cheese we had a difficulty finding here was chedder. However, we asked a fellow student that has been living in Switzerland for 3 years now and she was able to give us the name we should look for and what the packaging looks like.....success at last, we did find some!
