Le Brie, La Brie, Les Bries — the Most Parisian of Cheeses
By Guélia Pevzner
IT WAS JUST AFTER PASSING the turrets of Disneyland Paris that I saw the first cows. I was on a country road bordered by great fields of wheat, sugar beets, and alfalfa, a road that zigzagged between towns whose names sound like a cheese counter: Meaux, Melun, Coulommiers, Nangis, Provins… Each of these places gave birth to …