Pélardon vs Picodon
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.
Picodon
Facts
- Milk
- Goat
- Texture
- Soft
- Type
- Bloomy rind
- Rind
- Bloomy rind
- Country
- France
- Place
- Rhône-Alpes
Picodon is a small goat's milk cheese from the Rhône-Alpes region of France. Each piece is a low round disk of whole goat's milk, and the paste is soft when the cheese is young. The taste is frank, with hazelnut, a light mushroom note, and sometimes a peppery edge. A short ripening leaves the center supple under a thin rind. A longer rest dries the paste and makes the taste stronger, and a washed style goes further still.