{"id":3923,"date":"2012-12-24T07:48:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T12:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheeseloverca.wordpress.com\/?p=3923"},"modified":"2012-12-24T07:48:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T12:48:36","slug":"merry-christmas-to-cheese-lovers-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/2012\/12\/24\/merry-christmas-to-cheese-lovers-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas to cheese lovers everywhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/px_cl_xmas-12-pieddevent-cows-1.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[3923]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3928\" alt=\"px_cl_Xmas-12-PiedDeVent-cows\" src=\"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/px_cl_xmas-12-pieddevent-cows-1.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/px_cl_xmas-12-pieddevent-cows-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/px_cl_xmas-12-pieddevent-cows-1-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a>Our favourite Christmas greeting this year comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromagesduquebec.qc.ca\/en\/cheese_makers\/?fromagerie=Fromagerie_du_Pied-De-Vent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fromagerie du Pied-de-Vent<\/a> on \u00celes de la Madeleine via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromagesduquebec.qc.ca\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plaisirs Gourmets<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>As you can see, the image shows a herd of cows of the famed Canadienne heritage breed at pasture on the rolling hills of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tourismeilesdelamadeleine.com\/magdalen-islands\/atrim-ang-696-home.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Magdalen Islands<\/a>\u2014with the sun\u2019s rays piercing through clouds. Those rays, in the local dialect, are called pied-de-vent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3933\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3933\" style=\"width: 148px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/etiquette-pied-de-vent-1.png\" data-lightbox=\"gal[3923]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3933  \" alt=\"Sun's rays piercing through clouds appear on packaging.\" src=\"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/etiquette-pied-de-vent-1.png\" width=\"148\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/etiquette-pied-de-vent-1.png 265w, https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/etiquette-pied-de-vent-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/etiquette-pied-de-vent-1-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/etiquette-pied-de-vent-1-200x200.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 148px) 100vw, 148px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sun&#8217;s rays piercing through clouds appear on packaging.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturecheesemag.com\/cheesemaker\/acs_2011\/fromagerie_du_pied_de_vent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read more<\/a> about Pied-de-Vent, the Canadienne breed and my pilgrimages to the islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in a piece I wrote last year for a special edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturecheesemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Culture: the word on cheese<\/i>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\"><em>\u2014Georgs Kolesnikovs<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Georgs Kolesnikovs, Cheese-Head-in-Chief of CheeseLover, is founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/cheesefestival.ca\/\">The Great Canadian Cheese Festival.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our favourite Christmas greeting this year comes from Fromagerie du Pied-de-Vent on \u00celes de la Madeleine via Plaisirs Gourmets. As you can see, the image shows a herd of cows of the famed Canadienne heritage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,325,329],"tags":[416,423],"brand":[],"class_list":["post-3923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadienne-heritage-breed","category-pied-de-vent","category-plaisirs-gourmets","tag-artisan-cheese","tag-canadian-cheese"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}