I drove for an hour through the French countryside just for nine slices of cheese

My title isn't honest because I didn't drive to the border of Switzerland and France. My companion was the one who did.

Everything else I write here is one-hundred percent true and in no way an exaggeration.

If you're looking for a real French experience to cheese, skip Paris. The one plate of cheese worth spending an afternoon driving to and from France isn't there. It's in Alsace, the northeastern…