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This is hardly worth starting a thread for. Just a question, for which it’s not likely that there’s more than one answer:

Sommelier is to wine as _________ is to cheese. Fill in the blank for me?
 
affineur -- but I'm not fond of this one because it is specifically about the aging of the cheese within a certain environment, over a period of days or years, and not about making the cheese.

fromager -- not very specific, but it is a person that knows about cheese

Maitre Fromager -- meaning Master of cheese
Cheese Wiz -- someone that knows about cheese (ha ha)
Cheese Head -- someone from Wisconsin or has cheese on the mind


I'm sure there's more!
 
I guess I’ll have to go with fromager; affineur sounds more like someone who just loves cheese, your definition of it also makes me think that it’s not the cheese version of sommelier. And Maitre fromager sounds just a bit too grand, to the point of being pretentious.
 
affineur -- but I'm not fond of this one because it is specifically about the aging of the cheese within a certain environment, over a period of days or years, and not about making the cheese.

fromager -- not very specific, but it is a person that knows about cheese

Maitre Fromager -- meaning Master of cheese
Cheese Wiz -- someone that knows about cheese (ha ha)
Cheese Head -- someone from Wisconsin or has cheese on the mind


I'm sure there's more!

:LOL::LOL::LOL:

CD
 
The people who sell cheese are CHEESEMONGERS in the US

This guy is the tops and his book is informative and fabulous

https://www.amazon.com/Cheese-Primer-Steven-Jenkins/dp/0894807625
As it is in GB - there's even a World Cheese Awards cheesemonger of the year competition.

It's a lovely old word, we still have fishmongers, ironmongers and a few costermongers (who sell fruit and veg -and nowadays mostly work in the wholesale markets such as Covent Garden now. "Coster" or "Costard" was an old name for a variety of apple).

(Sorry, you can take the woman out of teaching but you can't take teaching out of the woman, as a "beau" of my younger days used to say!)
 
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I have no idea how expert these guys are, but for what it's worth, my local supermarket had this in their flyer the other day (trying to avoid brand names here):

Reds pair with Parmesan.

Chadonnay pairs with something called Comte cheese. Your guess is as good as mine.

Merlot pairs with blue cheese.

Riesling pairs with Gold Cheese. ?

Prosecca pairs with Mozzarella.

Rose pairs with Brie.

And since I know as much about wine as I do about cheese, I have no idea if any of those wines could be called a Sommelier.

Good luck!
 
As it is in GB - there's even a World Cheese Awards cheesemonger of the year competition.

It's a lovely old word, we still have fishmongers, ironmongers and a few costermongers (who sell fruit and veg -and nowadays mostly work in the wholesale markets such as Covent Garden now. "Coster" or "Costard" was an old name for a variety of apple).

(Sorry, you can take the woman out of teaching but you can't take teaching out of the woman, as a "beau" of my younger days used to say!)
Do Brits use the term "green grocer" for someone who sells fruit and veg? It's sometimes used here in Montreal. I imagine some younger people just think it's an environmentally friendly grocer.
 
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