Cheese of the month

Cheese of the month November 2013: Pouligny St Pierre, Berry and Touraine/France

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For most people in this part of the world November sounds somehow dark, melancholy and altogether grey. But first, at least for now the late autumn sun is still shining beautifully, second the grey is a great excuse after all the summer outdoors time to settle in at home (cook a lot! music! read!) and third (I know, this is supposed to be a cheese blog) with the right cheese on the table, things will look much better, immediately. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month October 2013: Beecher’s Flagship Reserve, Seattle & NYC/USA

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No excuse for yet another offering from the English speaking cheese world! I’m fully aware though that American Cheddar from glasswalled facilities in both Seattle and midtown New York sounds like more show than content, more Disneyland than real character… but the American cheeselogic often works completely against what we European cheesaholics assume. Beecher’s Flagship Reserve is a gorgeous cheese, fullstop. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month September 2013: Caerphilly from Gorwydd/Wales, UK

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Generally speaking Caerphilly doesn’t have a very good reputation in the UK. The blame for this mostly has to go to the large cheddar producers who cannibalized this fairly old cheese and turned it into a fast-maturing, boring cash cow. But there is an alternative, as brothers Todd and Maugan Trethowen demonstrate with their Gorwydd which is based on a traditional recipe, made with very good milk – and considerable talent. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month August 2013: Piccolo from Carmelis/Okanagan Valley, Canada

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We writers are hunters and gatherers, and as I recently returned from five weeks in England, the US and Canada, my bags were full to the brim with goodies, impressions and wonderful memories. It should come as no surprise then that the cheese of the month stems from far away (well, at least seen from Berlin), that is from British Columbia, in western Canada. Contrary to common belief, polar bears, Inuit and snow are NOT the only features there. The good people of the Okanagan grow wine (and it can be very good – YES!) and some keep goats.  » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month July 2013: Grotteost from Hitra Gårdsmat

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I’d like to be completely open about one thing straight away: you won’t find this cheese just around the corner, even worse, you won’t find it pretty much around any corner. Nevertheless Grotteost, the cave cheese Bodil Birkeland makes on the Hitra island in Norway, is my cheese of the month. I mean, if this isn’t the right time of the year for at least some cheese-loving people to be attracted by the midnight sun and the North Cape…  » Weiterlesen…