Fete de la Chataigne Fully

Sonnabend 15.10.10 : Fete de la Chataigne Fully: Lots of harvest fairs this month. This week Ruth, Bill Rose, Fiona and I took the trail to Fully, Valais for a chestnut festival. With 250 food, drink, and craft stalls lining 8 blocks of the tiny town, it was hard not feel the celebration. Chataigne or Chestnuts were the excuse to gather but all the fresh local specialties were available to try. Brisolee, a dish we ordered, came with: roasted chestnuts with local grapes, apples, two hearty breads, 5 types of Alpkase (cheese), and ham. Wow! We washed that down with some local Gamay red wine. 

What I loved about this was the selections for the cheese plate. In the US a cheese plate would include 5 different looking cheeses; blue, soft, log etc. Here there were 5 different 3-4 month old, rind-washed ‘alpkase’ cheeses that looked the same, yet they were all unique tasting.