Possible Clues:

• French novelist second to go on about limits of ripening cheese
• Ugly woman writer served with biscuits?
• French author ends with monstrous woman making cheese
• Italian town terrifying female novelist
• Fare repulsive woman offered to French novelist
• Awful woman novelist has blue veins
• French writer with snaky hair and a petrifying gaze?
• Blue-veined cheese
• Cheese for ill-favoured woman novelist
• Blue-green veined cheese named for the Lombardy town where it came from