Le Persillé: a cheese at the top

In our country with a thousand cheeses, we found one that you probably never tasted. With its white colour as snow, its cylindrical shape and its mixture of cow's milk and goat's milk, the Persley de Tignes is a rare cheese, grown only in a farm located at 1,600 meters above sea level. Originally from Tignes (Savoie), this cheese almost disappeared. When the dam was built in 1952, the village was swallowed up and many farmers left. (Traditions a…