Calling all Fromage Fans: Paris Celebrates its First Cheese Day

Paris Celebrates its First Cheese Day
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Calling all Fromage Fans:
Paris Celebrates its First
Cheese Day
By Margaret Kemp - Jan 20, 2016
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“Fromage” by karaian/Flickr
“How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?” said General de Gaulle.
Wonder what he’d think of the first ever Cheese Day when the “gratin” of the world’s cheesemakers
will gather at the achingly posh Pavillon Ledoyen! And as there’s no cheese without wine– add
winemakers, tastings, master classes and lots of animation to the delicious program.
In tandem, Yannick Alléno– Ledoyen’s Michelin three-star chef– is offering 100% cheese menus
(35€) at his excellent Terroir Parisien restaurants. And so is Fréderic Vardon from the kitchens of his
chic penthouse restaurant just off the Champs Elysées. A fleet of Renault cars will be on hand to ferry
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cheese-o-philes between Pavillon Ledoyen and the two restaurants. “We’re celebrating not only
French cheese but cheeses from all over the world, it’s very exciting”, says chef Alléno.
Participating chefs/ ©Cheese_Day
Top chefs and sommeliers participating include: Yannick Alléno du Pavillon Ledoyen, Pierre
Gagnaire (*** Michelin), Arnaud Lallement: L’Assiette Champenoise (*** Michelin), Mathieu
Pacaud: l’Hexagone et l’Ambroisie (*** Michelin), Alain Dutournier: Carré des Feuillants (** Michelin),
Guy Martin: Grand Véfour (** Michelin), Alain Pégouret du Laurent (* Michelin), Frédéric Vardon: 39V
(* Michelin), Jean-Pierre Vigato d’Apicius (*Michelin), Philippe Faure Brac, Meilleur Sommelier du
Monde (1992) and owner of Bistrot du Sommelier, Paris. Olivier Poussier, Meilleur Sommelier du
Monde (2000) et head sommelier at La Maison Lenôtre et du Pré Catelan.
Say cheese!
January 25th, 2016: Cheese Day from 11am-7pm, price 15€. Cheese Night 7pm-11pm, price
10€. Book tickets on-line: www.weezevent.com/cheese-day
Pavillon Ledoyen, 8 Avenue Dutuit, 8th. Tel: +33 (0)1 53 05 10 01. www.cheeseday.fr
Photo credits: Fromage by karaian/Flickr
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Yannick Alléno and JF Hesse/ ©Cheese_Day
Margaret Kemp
Born in Hampton, Middlesex, UK, Margaret Kemp is a lifestyle journalist, based between London, Paris
and the world. Intensive cookery courses at The Cordon Bleu, London, a wedding gift from a very
astute ex-husband, gave her the base that would take her travelling (leaving the astute one behind) in
search of rare food and wine experiences, such as the vineyards of Thailand, 'gator hunting in South
Florida, learning to make eye-watering spicy food in Kerala;pasta making in a tiny Tuscany trattoria.
She has contributed to The Guardian, The Financial Times Weekend and FT. How To Spend It.com, The
Spectator, Condé Nast Traveller, Food & Travel, and Luxos Magazine. She also advises as consultant to
luxury hotels and restaurants. Over the years, Kemp has amassed a faithful following on BonjourParis.
If she were a dish she'd be Alain Passard's Millefeuille “Caprice d'Enfant”, as a painting: Manet’s
Dejeuner sur l’herbe !
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