The Basque people celebrate Europe’s oldest language and an ancient cheese. Will witnesses the traditional hand-milking of ewes in the mountains.
AOC Cheeses of South Eastern France; Banon, St Marcellin
Episode 8, from Season 5
Will travels to Provence in the southeast of France, where he samples Banon, a traditional benchmark goat’s milk cheese wrapped in dried chestnut leaves, and discovers a rare cheese called Brousse du Rove. After driving north to the Vercors plateau to investigate St Marcellin, Will comes across an extraordinary small dried goat's cheese whose name literally means 'the feet of God'.
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