Freak - A person with a specified enthusiasm or interest.
(Concise Oxford English Dictionary)

Welcome to French Food Freaks. We are enthusiasts about food and about France. This site is dedicated to providing you with those unique and hard to find ingredients that make all the difference between something that resembles the dish that you ate on holiday and the real thing.

French Food Freaks Cheese Wins Top Awards

The World Cheese Awards are held each year in London as part of the Taste of London Show held in London's Regents Park from the 15th to the 18th of June. Over 1500 cheeses were entered and the Ossau Iraty 10 month old Ewes milk cheese from the Agour Creamery won:-   Best French cheese   and was also   The Supreme Champion of the World for 2006   For more details and to order this award winning cheese click here To find out more about Ossau Iraty and Agour creamery click here

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Recent Articles

Ossau Iraty, Ossau/Iraty, Ossau-Iraty The Cheeses of the Basque Country, Winners of the World Cheese Award 2006

The Basque country (la Pays Basque) that small triangle of of south West France tucked away between the vast pine forests of Les Landes to the North, the enormity of the Atlantic Ocean to the West and the uncompromising rocky heights of the Pyrennes to the South. For untold generations the Basques have tended their flocks of sheep, goats, and their herds of cattle in these green foothills. The warm moist climate produces excellent grazing land and ensures that the local cheese, producers have plentiful supplies of the milk to produce the various cheeses that make up the AOC Ossau/Iraty. .....read article

Bayonne Ham (Jambon de Bayonne)

The classic air dried ham of 'la Pays Basque'. The Annual Ham Fair. The orgins and method of production. .....read article

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The Regions

As well as recipes we will also inform you a little bit about the regions of France we are dealing with together with links to all sorts of other informational sites. ....visit our regions section

Great Recipes

Perhaps you had a particular dish when on holiday and would like to recreate it. Try our recipe section which has a number of recipes from both the Basque country and Provence. ....visit our recipes section