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Cervelle de canut
Cervelle de canut is a cheese spread/dip, and a specialty of Lyon, France.
The dish is a base of fromage blanc, seasoned with chopped herbs, shallots, salt, pepper, olive oil and vinegar. Its name literally means "silk worker's brain", after the canuts, the silk workers of 19th-century Lyon. Its name is thought to reflect the low opinion the affluent in Lyon had of the weavers.
See also.
- List of spreads
scholar Frédéric Ozanam.
Other uses.
Laurent Mourguet was an unemployed canut when he created the character Guignol and his eponymous puppet show for children, supposedly in his own image.
Cervelle de canut (lit. "silk worker's brains") is a cheese spread/dip, a Lyonnais speciality. The dish is a base of fromage blanc, seasoned with chopped herbs, shallots, salt, pepper, olive oil and vinegar.
The canuts were the subject of songs by Aristide Bruant and Éric La Blanche