Cheese - Abbaye de Tamie - SCAR2017 Traditional Cache

I like cheese.

So, in recognition of the publication of The Oxford Companion to Cheese, I thought I would create a series of caches that pay homage to the fromage. The Companion only lists 244 of over 1400 known cheese styles but has over 850 total entries about all things cheese, from confocal microscopy to cheesemaker’s lung to Monty Python’s Cheese Shop skit.

Abbaye de Tamie – This is the first cheese style listed in the Companion and is a washed-rind cheese produced from raw cow’s milk by the monks at Abbaye Notre-Dame de Tamie in southern France.  The abbey dates to 1133 and it is believed that cheese was produced from the very first day of the abbey’s history.  The recipe was lost during the French Revolution but the monks resurrected the cheese along with the abbey and it continues to be produced to this day.

Enjoy the series as it grows and ripens but please do not leave any samples of your favorite cheese behind in a cache.

This cache is placed for SCAR X and should not be sought prior to 5:30 p.m. on May 26, 2017.