Country Soup of Bread and Garlic with French Alpine Gruyère

The word panade, of course, comes from pain and generally means any kind of soup, stuffing or other mixture thickened with breadcrumbs. This soup seems to be so simple that at first glance one’s snobbish instincts can hardly accept the fact that, eventually, on the tongue, it can be so extraordinarily good. There is a kind of strength and sustaining power about it. Remember, as you lift the first spoonful to your mouth, that probably at that very moment ten thousand French fam