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This Tuesday, September 19, 13 Heures goes to an exceptional house, to meet a master cheesemaker in Haut-Rhin, Bernard Antony, 80 years old. It was he who was responsible for providing the raw milk cheese for the dinner in honor of King Charles III in Versailles (Yvelines).
Two French cheeses and one English cheese. A Pélardon des Cévennes, a Comté de Grande Garde, a Stichelton and mirabelle plum jelly. Here is the plate that will be on the table of King Charles III and President Emmanuel Macron, Wednesday September 20 in Versailles (Yvelines). Behind this plate, the work of a father and a son, cheese refiners. They were chosen by the Élysée to represent one of the French symbols, cheese.
“A great privilege”
“It is a great privilege to have a proposal like this“, estimates Bernard Antony, master cheesemaker in the village of Vieux-Ferrette (Haut-Rhin). “They still call on Anne-Sophie Pic, Yannick for the chefs Allénothere is Pierre Hermé (…) so we say to ourselves ‘we is part of this gratin-there’ “, rejoices Jean-François Antony. The secret of their success lies in their maturing cellars. There are six different with each one has a particular hygrometry and microflora.