French culture, that abstract repository of 1,500 years of Frenchness and all its refinements, is evinced in a current promotion for French cheeses. The Association Fromages de Terroirs, a regional trade group, has mixed tasty soft cheeses with tasty soft porn to produce its From' Girls (Cheese Girls) 2006 calendar (
http://www.fromages-de-terroirs.com/commande.html)
(Note - This is just Pave France's joke picture featuring parts of the calendar)
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LYONS December 3, 2005 (Telegraph) - [Véronique Richez-Lerouge, the founder of France's regional cheese association and its national cheese day, and also the December Cheese Girl] persuaded her friends in Lyons, aged from 20 to around 40 and lovers of cheese and wine, to pose. ... Each appears in various stages of undress next to a cheese.
Each of the thirteen Cheese Girls (twelve months + covergirl) is posed to suggest some aspect of her offering. For example, the peek-a-boo crotch shot of Mlle. Décembre's white panties reminds us to remove the outer layer of the yummy Mont d'Or so that we can properly apply our spoon. Astraddle a folding chair, the spread-eagled Mlle. Févier proves when a cheese looks this inviting we do not mind -- if we notice at all -- the heady pong of Crottin de Chavignol.* And who could doubt after gazing on the wholesome contours of Mlle. Mars, representing fermier morbier while spilling from her back-laced bustier and push-up bra, that pasteurized industrial morbier "n'en est qu'une pâle copie".
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The women also stripped to prove that you can eat smelly cheese and stay thin and healthy. "French women are obsessed with dieting," Mrs Richez-Lerouge said. "But low-fat cheese has no taste and is not as healthy as fromage au lait crû."
The calendar is aimed at stemming a downward trend in unpasteurised cheese on a par with the drop in French wine consumption. Today only seven per cent of cheeses eaten in France are unpasteurised, compared with up to half 30 years ago. Some cheeses have already disappeared. Mrs Richez-Lerouge placed the blame for the decline on overly stringent European rules and on supermarkets that produce fake cheeses with no taste.
It'a all about the cheese!
* We never tire of remarking because people never tire of asking: The Crottin de Chavignol...took its name from the small clay oil lamp from the Sancerrois but was soon nicknamed 'horse droppings'. This was because crottin in French means 'dung' and because of the cheese's resemblance to horse dung when mature.
pavefrance.com
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