Cannes

The face of Madame Agnèse, whose family has been in the cheese business since 1914, lights up at the thought of the festival in Cannes. “All the big names will be there,” she says with excitement. She is not referring to the Cannes Film Festival, of course, but to the slightly less famous Cannes cheese festival in May. Even more enthusiasts than usual will pack her tiny, immaculate shop on the rue d’Antibes, to choose from the shelves of strangely shaped and curiously textured little goats’ cheeses that rest on their beds of straw and leaves.