Cutting Into Soft Cheese
There's a cheese crisis in France! Well, kinda. Cheese consumption increased during last year's recession, but not the right kind of cheese. Consumption of hard cheeses increased, due largely to the rise of pizza (Domino's Pizza increased sales by 31% in 2008). But the consumption of the French traditional soft cheeses, like brie, have dropped. It's gotten so bad that it almost seems like the French aren't buying soft cheese at all anymore: “The French now buy cheese as they buy washing powder,” laments Véronique Richez-Lerouge, the president of Association Fromage de Terroirs, a lobby group.
More Noory
One TDE reader told me enjoyed my George Noory post last month, so I'm passing along this L.A. Times piece that I saw at Lew Rockwell yesterday: Host George Noory brings talk of the supernatural back to earth.
Noory typically begins the four-hour program with news items involving politics, crime and an occasional oddity -- such as the hospital cat who could forecast death: It would curl up with whatever patient was just about to die. Then come interviews, followed by a chance for listeners to call in and question the guests. During periods of open phone lines, listeners can call and tell their own stories.
