The Boy Who Wanted More Cheese or The Gouda Gala

Folklore, Food & Fairytales

In which we discover that a cautionary tale can be sometimes ineffective, that lots of cheese actually can be too much of a good thing and that you should never follow fairies anywhere. There is also excessive dancing, fairies, towers of cheese and many tiny sparkling lights.

The story for this episode is The Boy Who Wanted More Cheese as told in Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks (1918) William Elliot Griffis

The recipe for this episode is Eggy Bread, Chilli & Gouda Stack

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