Spinach and Reblochon

Epinards au Reblochon

Preparation info
  • Yield

    6 to 8

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Savoie: The Land, People, and Food of the French Alps

By Madeleine Kamman

Published 1989

  • About

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.