Word: camemberts
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...biffin (rubbish forager) named Jean-not. He shared a filthy hut at the rear of a cafe with Jeannot and the biffin's sidekick, an evil-tempered, alcoholic tramp named Tintin, who has since died of delirium tremens. Rebours' total expense account of about $19.50 included 14 Camembert cheeses, 20 loaves of bread, six helpings of fried potatoes bought to celebrate Jeannot's discovery of some marketable shoes, plus 190 glasses of wine downed to keep up with his tipsy pals. But just as Philanthropist Walter intended, Rebours' dip in the depths paid...
...insatiable Colette lived day in, day out with this appetite. The mere sight of a Camembert cheese roused desire to "feel the crust, measure the elasticity of the texture." Sapphires, spring's first lilies of the valley, the smell of humus, the sight of a dead tree branch "polished, glazed, oiled by generations of reptiles"-all these roused her. "She knew a recipe for everything, whether it was for furniture-polish, vinegar, orange-wine, quince-water, for cooking truffles or preserving linen . . ." It is no surprise to hear that "Balzac and Proust were the authors whom she reread untiringly...
...however, a well-dressed New Yorker who called himself Dr. Joseph Knirim turned up in Vimoutiers determined to honor Marie Harel, "the discoverer of Camembert cheese." "I suffered from indigestion for months," explained Dr. Knirim, "and Camembert was the only food my stomach could absorb. I have carried across the seas this bunch of flowers to honor our common benefactress...
...supposed to be Marie Harel, was unveiled at Vimoutiers by Alexandre Millerand, a former President of the Republic. It soon became a shrine for tourists, and also for local peasants, who often placed flowers at its feet and knelt in prayer for the secrets of properly ripened Camembert. Then, because of a G-2 mistake in World War II, both Marie and a good part of her village were blown to bits by a flight of U.S. Ninth Air Force bombers...
...Wert. American money helped restore the blasted town at war's end, but nobody did much about Marie until 1950, when chunky, Wisconsin-born Dairy Executive Will Foster began singing her praises among workers at a Borden cheese factory in Van Wert, Ohio, where most of the Camembert-style cheese in the U.S. is made. Within a month the U.S. cheese workers had shelled out $2,000 to honor their long-dead French colleague. Last week, thanks to their generosity, a statue was unveiled in Vimoutiers for the second time in a century to the glory of the woman...