Spinach and Reblochon

Since spinach does not grow well at high altitudes, people of the mountain used Chenopodium bonus Henricus, a large leaf that grows wild around the base of chalets and, unfortunately, close to manure piles, according to both Marie Thérèse Hermann and Robert Fritsch (see Selected Bibliography). I probably ate plenty of it without knowing, thinking it was spinach. “Bon Henri” was also believed to cure tuberculosis.