Cheese people

Consolidating the cheese: Columbia Cheese in Long Island City/NY

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Long Island City ain’t Brooklyn, and it certainly ain’t gentrified. Walking north from Williamsburg, you soon leave the condos with pet-grooming salons and the waves of freshly roasted coffee behind, and once you pass Broadway Stages, you’re in a different world. Ten years ago, Adam Moskowitz tells me, this was a dangerous area. Five years ago, there still weren’t any sidewalks. Today, it continues to be a male dominated world. Its main feature: trucks, of all sizes and all sorts. Trucks are also what Adam’s business is built on: Larkin is a warehouse specializing in food of all kinds. And food of a special kind: Adam’s special little pet business under the Larkin roof is Columbia Cheese. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese people: Anne Saxelby of New York City

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Anne Saxelby’s story is a journo’s dream and has therefore been told many times. But hey, don’t stories become alive that way, by being told again, and again, and again? So here we go… A beautiful young woman from the Chicago suburbs moves to New York City to study art, and subsequently works at galleries and as a museum intern. However, none of these so glamourous sounding things really appeal. The art world seems too precious to her. So she has a rethink, and decides to swap paintings and sculptures with cheese and wine. » Weiterlesen…

A new favourite cheese producer: Svein Håpnes from Skånaliseter Gårdsysteri in Limingen/Norway

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The Norwegians are one of the few reasons for me to visit the Grüne Woche, as their presentation is clearly based on quality. These friendly Nordic men and women all sport the loveliest redbluewhite starred knitted pullovers and they have aquavit (of course), a lot of fish as well as rendeer and elk meat on offer. However what excited me most this time was the goat cheese (of course) Svein Håpnes showed me. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese Sisters

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Cheese is a feminist issue. You either have the mammaries or you don’t. As a cheeseaholic myself, I’m ultra-aware of the difference between the sexes – just go try milking a bull, a ram or a billy goat and you’ll get ample proof of the basic uselessness of the male animal in a mammary-orientated situation. This reality can lead to heated arguments with vegetarians who refuse to eat meat, but are happy to indulge in cheese and other dairy products. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese people: Fritz Lloyd Blomeyer

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The first time I heard about Fritz Lloyd Blomeyer was on a menu the Berlin winebar Rutz announced for a special evening. His name stood next to the cheese course like that of an artist next to his work. I googled him, but couldn’t find any address. However it became clear to me that the Rutz team was ahead of the game once again when I ordered cheese at another Berlin restaurant some weeks later. Amazed and full of respect I discovered on the plate in front of me two slices of perfectly mature Blühende Landschaften, flowering landscapes. This goat cheese from the Brandenburg top producer Capriolenhof is not only hard to find, but extremely delicate. „We get it from Fritz Blomeyer,“ the somm said. » Weiterlesen…

Goodbye Peter Klann

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My friend Peter Klann, baker extraordinaire, died on March 28. I met him in spring 2002 while working on an article about oil. At the time he was operating a tiny artisan oil mill an hour from Berlin. When I went to see him to learn more (and taste his fantastic products from walnuts, linseed, peanuts, nigella, poppy seed and much more) he told me that his real interest, his soul, was in bread. And we actually met again two years later when bread had reclaimed him and became very good friends. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese people: Manuela and Norbert from Kaeskuche

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This category needs a kickstart! It’s not that I’m too lazy to work on it, honest, just so many other things to do all the time… But the Bavarian superteam from Kaeskuche who courageously export Alpine cheesy stuff to the States, England, Singapore and Dubai are absolutely the first in line to be written about. » Weiterlesen…