Cheesemongers from around Europe in Beaconsfield today (From Bucks Free Press)
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Cheesemongers from around Europe in Beaconsfield today
1:41pm Saturday 14th April 2012 in Freetime By James Nadal
Town crier Dick Smith shakes hands with Alain Roux at the Beaconsfield cheese-makers market
CHEESE of all shapes, sizes, colours, textures and flavours is on display in Beaconsfield today.
Hundreds of dairy produce lovers have flocked to the old town for the festival, being held for the second time this year.
Cheesemongers from across Europe have come to south Bucks for the event.
About 50 stalls and a wine and cheese tasting tent are up and running.
The town cryer and Beaconsfield Mayor Richard Keith formally opened the market at 11am.
More than 1,000 people attended the Cheese Makers’ Market in the Old Town last year, prompting Eric Charriaux and Amnon Paldi to make it a regular fixture in the town’s diary.
The pair run the La Cave à Fromage shop in South Kensington, as well as supply company Premier Cheese. Both companies are headquartered in Gregories Road, Beaconsfield.
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J B Blackett
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2:51pm Sat 14 Apr 12
Lividov
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5:37pm Sat 14 Apr 12
tom.marlow2
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5:44pm Sat 14 Apr 12
The SURGEON wrote:I'm glad we liberated Paris then
Our reward for liberating Paris from the Nazis - a French dominated cheese festival in the British heartland that is Bucks. The world has officially gone mad.
J B Blackett
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7:23pm Sat 14 Apr 12
Lividov wrote:I would think so.
are you allowed to say mongers?
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A monger is a trader in certain specific businesses. Like fishmonger , ironmonger , costermonger etc.
The word has been around for several centuries probably originates from
the Middle Ages.
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Why would anybody say it was not permitted , as it is on lots of local signs and is even in this article ?
ImpeturbableLawrence
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1:41am Sun 15 Apr 12
The SURGEON wrote:The subject of the French and their cheese in Beaconsfield has already been commented on here and seems to have stirred our English hearts, however Paris was liberated by interior French forces and a division of the French army, specially allotted to this task by Eisenhower, followed later by US reinforcements which were not required – ‘Paris libere par lui meme - par son peuple par ses propres mains'- see
Our reward for liberating Paris from the Nazis - a French dominated cheese festival in the British heartland that is Bucks. The world has officially gone mad.
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(On the subject of de Gaulle, the French, and cheese, we should remember the General’s words in "Les Mots du General", (1962);
‘How can one govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?’)
ImpeturbableLawrence
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1:54am Sun 15 Apr 12
J B Blackett wrote:Earlier than the Middle Ages – OED says:
Lividov wrote:I would think so.
are you allowed to say mongers?
.
A monger is a trader in certain specific businesses. Like fishmonger , ironmonger , costermonger etc.
The word has been around for several centuries probably originates from
the Middle Ages.
.
Why would anybody say it was not permitted , as it is on lots of local signs and is even in this article ?
‘Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Saxon mongari , Old High German mangari , mengari , Old Icelandic mangari , probably directly < classical Latin mangō dealer, trader (see mango n.2), with substitution of the Germanic base of -er suffix1 for the Latin agent-noun suffix; compare also mong v. With sense 2 compare Old Saxon flesmongere, Middle High German vleischmanger, Old Icelandic kjöt-mangari butcher.
Also apparently commonly attested in surnames from the late 13th cent., as Thom' Mangar (1279), and in place names from the early 13th cent., as Mangertone (1207; now Mangerton, Dorset), Mangersford (1442; Devon).’
Years ago I saw a very bad, logical-sounding, scholarly Victorian joke, about a costermonger being someone who mongs coster, but I have been unable to find it again through Google.
J B Blackett
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1:58am Sun 15 Apr 12
ImpeturbableLawrence
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2:07am Sun 15 Apr 12
ImpeturbableLawrence
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2:15am Sun 15 Apr 12
ad1975
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11:40am Sun 15 Apr 12
The SURGEON wrote:Did you actually visit? Most of the exhibitors were British, including Montgomery Cheddar, Bath Soft Cheese, Innes Goats Cheese, Alsop & Walker, Hampshire Cheese Co, Berkswell and Cote Hill Blue
Our reward for liberating Paris from the Nazis - a French dominated cheese festival in the British heartland that is Bucks. The world has officially gone mad.
J B Blackett
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2:15pm Sun 15 Apr 12
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Say 'Cheese' everybody.
J B Blackett
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5:13pm Sun 15 Apr 12
demoness the second
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5:14pm Sun 15 Apr 12
ImpeturbableLawrence
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5:38pm Sun 15 Apr 12
pennperson
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8:55pm Sun 15 Apr 12
ImpeturbableLawrence
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9:08pm Sun 15 Apr 12
ImpeturbableLawrence
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9:09pm Sun 15 Apr 12
The SURGEON says...
1:52pm Sat 14 Apr 12