Invited by the French Embassy

The French government bought 60 k of “Brie” cheese elaborated in a factory owned by people from Villa María which is set up in Arroyo Cabral for it to be served at a party it had organized.

“This was a great distinction that overcomes any prize we can achieve”, said the producers that were invited to participate of the entertainment carried out in Buenos Aires.

Last July 14, and with the Marseillaise background, waiters in charge of the reception in Palacio Ortiz Basualdo, French Embassy headquarters, endeavored to invite guests with “Brie” type cheese, the same that is considered “The King of Cheeses” in Europe.

The detail was related to the products that the important people invited to the event celebrating the French Revolution anniversary could taste, since cheeses did not come from the centre of France but they had been elaborated with utmost effort and craft commitment by hands from Villa María and Arroyo Cabral that are part of the firm Quesos Especiales SRL, responsible of “La Bohème “trade mark.

So magic, so simple. It was exactly at the building that in Argentina represents the Gallic country (place where cow, goat or sheep’s curdled milk based products reach an international emblematic level), that part of the offered menu had the imprint of referents of the milk basin that has Villa María and its region of influence as its neuralgic point.

As de luxe audience in this particular situation were Karina Parmigiani and Ricardo Rossa as owners of the cheese factory, and Daniel Montes, regional pioneer in initiatives in the field having an important knowledge on the elaboration of dairy products of special characteristics and international quality.

The above stated people were specially invited by the Embassy of France, whose authorities considered important to include the achievements of the dairy plant sited in Arroyo Cabral in the celebration in honor of the two of the major events of the French Revolution, the Storming of the Bastille and the Feast of Federation, which symbolize the union of the French people.

As this media came to know, about 60 k of cheese with molded rind and soft and scented cow’s milk semi matured paste were sent from the factory sited in Arroyo Cabral.

“We consider this not only one of the highest gratifications we have ever received but the highest in our whole trajectory as cheese producers”, said Rossa in the interview with EL DIARIO.

“That people from the Embassy (nowadays headed by Minister Jean-Michel Casa) had selected us as providers, invited us to the celebration and also allowed us to dialogue with the chef was truly a caress to the soul and an enormous distinction”, said the producer.

“I have a 38 year-experience in cheese production but in the field of special products I have been working for 10 years. We started producing with 500 liters of milk a week, and as market demand increased we got to work with ten thousand liters a day”, said the interviewed.

It is worth saying that the company also specializes in the elaboration of certain cheeses as “Azzurro”, “Danish White”, Camembert”, Caprice”and “Neufchâtel”, everyone with towering quality standards.

“We do our best with great sacrifice and this has been a great prize, beyond MercoLáctea medals or the awards in Pozo del Molle. Participation in the Embassy of France means much more than this”, he concluded.

 

The cheese of Royalty

Brie cheese comes from the centre of France, from the old French region that gave it its name, Brie, now called Seine et Marne.

As the legend tells us, in the VIII century Charlemagne tasted Brie for the first time and he immediately fell in love with it.

Many centuries ago, Brie cheese was one of the tributes that subjects had to pay to the kings of France.

It was an authentic royal gift in the strictest sense, since Charles of Orleans gave it to the ladies of the court as a gratification.

Its fame and consecration as the king of French cheeses emerged in 1814 when it was the cheese selected in a dinner organized by Talleyrand in the Congress of Vienna, in which each of the 30 ambassadors took the cheese they had selected.

 

Published in El Diario