Picodon

France

Photograph: Syndicat du Picodon

appellation: Appellation d’Origine Protégée (AOP)

place: the whole of the departments of Ardèche and Drôme plus seven communes in Gard and four in Vaucluse, in southern France

milk: goat (Alpine, Saanen, Massif-Central, Provençale, and Rove breeds), raw

type: small, acid-curd, partly bloomy-rind, sometimes washed and called “…