Pave d'Affinois | 
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Brand: Le Village
Category: Gourmet
Buy New: $10.60
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 26877
Country: France
ASIN: B0001219MA
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Features:
| • | 5.6oz / 160g | | • | Cow's milk cheese | | • | Freshly flown in every week | | • | Imported from France |
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Product Description
This soft-white cheese ripens in a warm, humid cellar for two or three weeks. Its texture melts in the mouth with a taste similar to Brie.
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| Customer Reviews:
A little dab will undo 'ya. November 10, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This little cheese is absolutely devine! Rich, sweet and fulfilling, notwithstanding its diminutive size. If you are trying this French gem for the first time, take this advice with confidence; buy more than one. You'll need at least two, if not half a dozen. It should be brought to room temperature, but only for about 20-30 minutes as it tends to run and you may end up with a delicious paste that is hard to handle. I prefer it with fresh Bremner wafers (plain), or by itself. Fruit is also a wonderful accompaniment, especially soft, sweet pear. In any event, steer clear of any cracker that is overpowering as this cheese is subtle. You are in for a treat!
This Stuff Should Be Illegal December 17, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Pave d'Affinois should be placed, like Demerol and prescription marijuana on the ClassII list of drugs: it is rich, sinful and so dangerous that within minutes you've eaten this entire "paving-stone" shaped soft cheese mass and consumed untold grams of fat and calories.
If you have more than 2 people over for drinks and appetizers, one of these will not do or you might have a fist fight between your guests clamoring for a bite or a hunk of this stuff.
Pave d'Affinois is the rich cousin to Brie and the butterfat content would choke a horse but it is a wonderful thing to behold and to eat.
For the Holidays, nothing says love like a small 4 oz paving stone of Pave d'Affinois for each of your guests. Add some toasted baquette squares and a deep, dark, sumptuous Cabernet and you are as close to Nirvana as anyone could ever be w/o dying.
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