Mothers often tell their children, “Don’t play with your food.”
But the French have a toy for cheese—a sort of spinning knife with a big wheel of dairy beneath it. They call it a girolle; the rest of us call it a cheese curler or cheese wheel.
It was love at first spin. After a visit to get some Tête de Moine, which is a type of cheese manufactured on both the French and Swiss sides of the Swiss Alps, it spins cheese into a mushroom trumpet shape, hence the name Girolle, which is French for the Chantrelle mushroom.
