Manigodine: The Wonder of Fromage – unveiling one French cheese at a time

Manigodine is nothing if not a terroir-driven cheese, a washed-rind delicacy made with the milk of Abondance, Montbéliarde, and Tarine cows whose very name evokes the Savoyard Valley of Manigod from whence it hails. But to hear Jean-François Paccard tell it, its roots are anything but local.

The idea kind of came about thanks to the Americans,” he says. …