Ursula Heinzelmann, Wein- & Essenschreiberin
Real cheese in the Bay Area started with the Cheese Board in North Berkeley, some 50 years ago. I didn’t make it over there this time, but I know they are still going strong (read this lovely portrait of them by the great Janet Fletcher). Here however are three equally thrilling cheese destinations in the city of San Francisco for you make it over to the west coast. » Weiterlesen…
„I’d like to make that milk sing in the cheese.“ Julie Cheyney is no romanticising back-to-the-land hippie (and nothing against those!), but a solid, experienced specialist (she was married to a Hampshire farmer for almost 30 years). Since five years she is above all busy with cheese making and for that purpose even moved with her White Wood Dairy from Hampshire to Bungay in the northeast of Suffolk, in search of really good, singing milk. » Weiterlesen…
We were Cheese! Somewhat exhausted, but soo happy we cherish the memories of that wonderful weekend. We had planned, organized, dreamed, hoped – and you came. Shepherds, farmers and cheesemakers from Brandenburg to Toggenburg and Anatolia, cheesemongers and affineurs from Berlin to Antwerpen and London, and just as important: tasters, aficionados, and all those interested in cheese from far and wide. » Weiterlesen…
It wasn’t easy to settle on a candidate for this month, after a whole row of wonderfully packed weeks traveling from cheese to cheese! But I’ll be working on that long list, promised. For October, let’s go south, once more, to Abruzzo, between the Gran Sasso mountains and Pescara on the Adriatic Sea, for a lesson on rennet: Pecorino di Farindola. » Weiterlesen…
Anybody with even a fleeting idea of Norwegian cheese history might wonder about the combination of Pultost and Gudbrandsdalen. This long-stretched valley surrounded by high mountains in the southern heart of Norway is commonly associated with brunost. Brunost, literally brown cheese and also known as geitost, goat cheese, is part of the Norwegian identity, just like elk, reindeer and snow. » Weiterlesen…