Alsace: Classic Wine & Food Pairings (Cheese). Flashcards
What is the classic cheese of Alsace?
Munster or Munster Géromé - This is one of the three oldest cheeses of France. It is made on both sides of the Vosges Mountains. Alsatians call it Munster from the word Monastère, or monastery. Lorrainers call it Géromé. It has its own AOC.
Describe Munster cheese.
Munster is a cow’s milk cheese; with a soft interior and a washed rind.
What is Alsace’s relationship to Foie Gras?
Potentially the creators of Foie Gras. Alsatian foie gras owes its reputation to the foie gras pâté created in 1778 by Jean Pierre Clause, the cook of Marshal Contades, who was the military governor of Strasbourg at that time.
What is a traditional Foie Gras dish?
Foie gras can be served cold in a terrine, or hot in different ways: one of the most popular recipes is sliced foie gras, fried in its own fat served with potatoes.
What is Alsatian pizza called?
Flammekuche : pizza, Alsatian-style
Traditionally it is a rectangular shaped piece of bread dough, topped with crème fraîche, thinly sliced raw onions, and lardons or small stripes of bacon. Flammenkueche was originally a simple farmer’s meal, now it can be found everywhere in the region.
What is Charcroute?
Alsatian sour cabbage
Amongst the regional specialities that have made Alsatian cooking famous, choucroute or sauerkraut is, without a doubt, the most well-known. High vitamin C it is finely chopped, sour and crunchy, and one of the favourite dishes of Alsatians. Since the 18th century it has been flavoured with juniper berries, elder, dill, sage, savoury, fennel, chervil, parsley or horseradish. A text from the 16th century stated that choucroute was a dish for Sunday and was best with sausage or a piece of pork rib.
What are Bredchdel pour les Bas-Rhinois, bradchdal pour les Haut-Rhinois?
Pretzels or Bretzels
What major beer producer purchased breweries in Alsace and which breweries did they purchase?
Heineken: Adelshoffen, l’Espérance and Fisher are now part of Heineken.
