Crottin de Chavignol vs Pélardon
Crottin de Chavignol
Facts
- Milk
- Goat
- Texture
- Soft
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- France
- Place
- Centre-Val de Loire
Crottin de Chavignol is a small goat's milk cheese from Centre-Val de Loire in France. Each piece is a short round with a thin natural rind. Young cheese is pale, soft, and mild, with a creamy center. Cheese kept longer turns drier, darker, and stronger in flavor. The name refers to that small rounded shape, which becomes more obvious as the outside dries and darkens.
Pélardon
Facts
- Milk
- Goat
- Texture
- Soft
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- France
- Place
- Languedoc-Roussillon
Pélardon is a small goat's cheese from Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France. The milk is raw goat's milk, and the cheese is a low round with a thin natural rind. The paste is soft and moist when young, then firmer and drier as it ripens. White, cream, or blue-grey molds can speckle the coat, and that varied surface is normal. The taste is goaty, floral, and lightly nutty, and it belongs on a board or in simple southern cooking.