Still life with goat's cheese

French goat’s cheese (“fromage de chèvre”) is white, at least on the inside, and is the only French cheese named after its shape. A “crottin” is small and round (“crottin de cheval” means horse droppings), a “bûche” is a log of wood, a “pyramide” doesn’t take much figuring out, and a “bouchon” is a cork: the cheese comes in all these different forms. In the past your “bûche” came wrapped in a kind of straw matting, nowadays in something that’s more like plastic drinking straws.