The Whole Fromage

An Amazon 2013 Best of the Year Pick The French,  sans doute ,   love their  fromages . And there’s much to love: hundreds of gloriously pungent varieties—crumbly, creamy, buttery, even shot through with bottle-green mold. So many varieties, in fact, that the aspiring gourmand may wonder: How does one make sense of it all? In  The Whole Fromage , Kathe Lison sets out to learn what makes French cheese so remarkable—why France is the “Cheese Mother Ship,” in the words of one Am