Reblochon in Utah!

On April 30, 2007, I was announcing that the “tartiflette” had been featured in the New York Times and with it, a short history of its primary ingredient, the semi-soft cheese “reblochon” produced in my native Haute-Savoie, in France. Today, as we were grocery-shopping at Costco, we discovered that this delectable marvel had finally made it to Utah! Even at $10 a piece, we couldn’t resist but buy a couple that we’d start savoring at lunch less than one hour later. The cheese was so good that it fooled us into thinking that we still were vacationing in France. When we first came to America, you had to smuggle good cheese into the country if you wanted to eat something decent. Later, it was possible to find a limited selection of European cheese at specialty stores, especially in large urban centers like New York City. Later, as globalization took hold, genuine Swiss production like Gruyère, Emmenthal and Raclette cheese tip-toed into grocery stores. For several years and through 2006 we had a terrific and thriving cheese store in Salt Lake that transformed our lives, but went out of business for no valid reason. A couple of years ago, French Comté appeared at Costco, and today the “reblochon miracle” occurred; America and more specially Utah are places truly blessed by God!