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Our gastronomic series "Full of fingers" focuses on the cheeses of our regions.

And there is a lot of work - there would certainly be more than 1,000 in France - in the North alone, the varieties are much more numerous than they seem.

A few weeks ago, we presented Old Lille to you.

It is now the turn of his close relative, the maroilles.

This particularly fragrant square cheese has acquired national and even international fame, thanks to the success of Dany Boon's film

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, in 2008. But we, in Hauts-de-France, have known Maroilles for a long time. lurette.

It is eaten in the morning, at noon or in the evening, on bread, melted or as a pie.

One of the peculiarities of this soft washed cow's milk cheese is that it is stronger in the nose than in the mouth.

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It is one of the 45 cheeses to be protected by a PDO.

Advantage which nevertheless imposes very strict specifications to be observed.

The production is done in Avesnois, especially in the village of Maroilles.

The one we present to you is made not far from there, at the Ferme du Pont des Loups, in Saint-Aubin.

This producer also has many other products in its catalog: the Chtiot biloute, the Boulette d'Avesnes, the Rollot or the Dauphin.

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