This time the question was what is Abbaye de Tamié? It is a cheese. Specifically, “a washed-rind cheese produced from raw cow’s milk by the monks at Abbaye Notre-Dame de Tamié in the Savoie department, France. The cheese has a thin disk shape and comes in two sizes, Grand Modèle (4 pounds [1.6 kilograms]) and Petit Modèle (21 ounces [600 grams]). About 882 pounds (400 kilograms) of the cheese is produced daily from the milk collected from eight surrounding farms.”
The question, and answer, were found in “The Oxford Companion to Cheese” which can be found within the Oxford Reference Online. This database provides quick reference and scholarly articles from a broad range of subjects in over 100 titles that include key titles from the Oxford Companion series and the complete Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Find it on the library’s Research & Homework page and access it with your library card. You’ll find it under O.
