{"id":910,"date":"2016-05-24T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/?p=910"},"modified":"2016-05-28T14:35:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T20:35:30","slug":"butter-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/archives\/910","title":{"rendered":"BUTTER FAT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“IF<\/em> YOU’RE AFRAID OF BUTTER, USE CREAM”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I myself could have uttered these famous words attributed to Julia Child, who brought France to the tastebuds of America. Now, Germanic\u00a0genetics have often been blamed for my own love of high-fat\u00a0dairy products, but Julia’s quote makes me suspect\u00a0that\u00a0untraced\u00a0Gallic blood might run\u00a0in my veins.<\/p>\n

I recently found a local supplier of\u00a052% BF cream, which is almost\u00a0too thick to pour. I use it in moderation (smirk); it’s possibly the reason my doctor has put me on cholesterol medication. But when it comes to food, the French are never wrong.<\/p>\n

Two\u00a0decades ago, my daughters and I spent a few\u00a0months in the Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes area of\u00a0eastern France\u2014my first extended visit to that country. We tucked ourselves into a furnished flat set on the shores of Lac du Bourget (not too far from\u00a0Mont Blanc and the Swiss border) and attempted to fit in with the locals\u2014especially gastronomically.<\/p>\n

We breakfasted on yoghurt that came in\u00a0little glass jars, produced\u00a0at a family-run\u00a0plant just down the road. We\u00a0lunched on\u00a0heavenly f<\/em>ondue savoyarde, <\/em>dipping pieces of\u00a0baguette <\/em>into melted\u00a0<\/i>Comt\u00e9, Beaufort, and Gruy\u00e8re perfumed with regional white wine and a whiff of garlic.\u00a0We\u00a0gorged on traditional\u00a0Reblochon and ancient Tomme de Savoie. We learned the terms\u00a0chantilly<\/em>\u00a0(whipped cream)\u00a0and\u00a0cr\u00e8me fra\u00eeche<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>(slightly fermented cream\u00a0fabulous in coffee). And\u00a0we couldn’t wait for the Saturday market, where local farmers laid out\u00a0pucks of ch\u00e8vre\u2014<\/em>goat cheese dusted with ash, marbled with mould.<\/p>\n

A century ago, Englishman G.K. Chesterton observed,<\/p>\n

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>[but]<\/em>\u00a0Cheese is the very soul of song.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sigh. Writing this post has made my mouth water, but France\u00a0has brought more to my heart\u00a0than to my lips (or hips!).\u00a0I’ve felt a metaphysical connection since the first time I visited Paris in 1989, where I finally understood why people eat Roquefort (long before I\u00a0was introduced to that heavenly\u00a0cr\u00e8me fra\u00eeche<\/em>). Over the years and through my travels, I’ve made several sound friendships with French women whom I consider my soulmates partly because, I admit, of their love for\u00a0high-fat foods.<\/p>\n

So now, at the risk of spiking my cholesterol reading, I’m going to brew a cup of coffee and add a dollop of my 52% cream. It’s the only thing that will\u00a0stop me from drowning in saliva and tears of yearning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“IF YOU’RE AFRAID OF BUTTER, USE CREAM” I myself could have uttered these famous words attributed to Julia Child, who brought France to the tastebuds of America. Now, Germanic\u00a0genetics have often been blamed for my own love of high-fat\u00a0dairy products, but Julia’s quote makes me suspect\u00a0that\u00a0untraced\u00a0Gallic blood might run\u00a0in my veins. I recently found a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[21,19,23,20,22,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}