Hard & aged Cow’s milk

Mimolette

also called Boule de Lille

A bright orange sphere with a pitted rind, courtesy of live mites.

Drawn by the app from this cheese’s own record — paste, rind and texture come from the data, not a stock library.

Made after Colbert banned Dutch imports in the seventeenth century, so France could have its own Edam. Annatto gives it the deep orange; the moon-crater rind is the work of *Acarus siro*, cheese mites deliberately introduced to aerate it.

Extra-vieille at two years is hard, brittle and tastes of butterscotch and hazelnut, with a salty caramel finish. American customs has taken issue with the mites more than once.

Tastes of

butterscotch hazelnut caramel salt

Put it next to

Belgian dubbel Mustard Dark rye Aged rum