
I have a thing for these wheels of soft, rather bland French cheeses in the wedge-shaped packaging. Maybe it’s just the little wedges I like; there’s also the round Baby Bell cheeses for which you pull the red string to remove the casing – eh, not so into those. I picked up this cheese at Super King Market. If you live in the 90065, you might be familiar with this dangerously-packed ethnic grocery store on San Fernando near the 2 freeway. It carries extremely low-priced produce with some oddities interspersed (recent nabs: oyster mushrooms, green almonds, sunchokes) and all kinds of Middle Eastern food products, including some from countries I’m not even sure we’re supposed to trade with (like SYRIA.) The emphasis does seem to be on Persian and Armenian foods, so when I saw this French cow face, it jumped out at me. It’s nothing super special. It’s a young cheese with a tiny bit of tang, good to smear on a salty sunflower-seed covered cracker. I paired this very nibble with some of the $2 Chardonnay you can buy at Fresh & Easy, the Big Kahuna. Entire snack + wine pairing = less than $10. Vive Le France.