Cheeses of the world: France

Well before Easter I was at shop rite looking for cheeses and I happened to meet this cute girl who was giving out samples of cheese. One was age Gouda (will talk about in another post) and the other was a black truffle brie. It was a very creamy cheese that was almost sweet. It's a French cheese that has a rind (hard out side) and the funny thing was my grand ma would do a baked pastry that had brie in it and it would make every one gag as it tasted like we were eating a fossilized sock. It turned out that we were suppose to rid the cheese (cut off the hard out side of the cheese). On the other hand thesis type of brie has pieces of black truffles in them, a rare mushroom that grows under ground and they use pigs to locate them. Certain types of truffles are very expensive and as a fun fact fresh truffles smell like a combination of old sweaty shoes and that musty big like smell of a pool locker room.