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More great Bratwurst milestones: reviews in Petits Propos Culinaires, The Oldie and a Sunday Times Food Book of the Year

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If this was a tweet, it would include the hashtag #veryhappyauthor: my Bratwurst book kid is indeed doing very well out there in the big wide world. In October the genial Tom Jaine included a very generous review in the latest issue of the classic Petits Propos Culinaires, November saw Elisabeth Luard writing about it in that charmingly British magazine The Oldie, complete with recipes and one of her lovely drawings. And then on the afternoon of the first Advent Sunday, my twitter account went a little viral when Diana Henry was letting the world know about it being amongst the Sunday Times Books of the Year. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month December 2014: Montgomery’s Cheddar, North Cadbury/Somerset, UK

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Without much ado: December’s cheese of the month is Montgomery’s Cheddar. True, Heinzelcheese right now is pretty much focussed on Cheddar. But hey – what’s wrong with that? If you insist on an explanation, it may be due to the first real taste of winter the cold easterly wind is spreading, which makes me long for a dense cheese with lots of glorious butter-iness (but not a hint of greasiness!). » Weiterlesen…

HeinzelCheeseTalk no 7: Let’s Cheddar! Nov 28, 2014

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Dearest and nearest friends in cheese – we have cheddared, we have cheddared intensely… Now we know that Cheddar isn’t only the supermarket stuff to put on sandwiches and melt on burgers. Or, at the other end of the wide spectrum, exclusive farmhouse cheese handcrafted in Somerset. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month November 2014: Montébore from the Vallenostra/Piemont, Italy

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Immediately after the Salone del Gusto, a week spent in and around Turin, a HeinzelCheeseTalk on Piemont AND the Cheese Berlin it’s almost impossible to settle on one single cheese of the month. There were so many great characters to discover! But this is the kind of luxury problem Heinzelcheese enjoys, and as you seemed to be pretty clear a few days ago on your favorite, the cheese of the month is… Montébore! » Weiterlesen…

Cheese Berlin 2014! Nov 2nd!! At Markthalle Neun!!!

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And the cheese goes on… the first Sunday in November was a big day: cheese was reigning high at Markthalle Neun. From 11am till 7pm we’ve been celebrating the third annual Cheese Berlin with old friends such as the Rheingau-Affineur and Fritz Blomeyer, market mongers like Menze and Knippenberg as well as regional producers (Capriolenhof, Pimpinelle, Ogrosen…), and others who had to travel a little longer, from the Allgäu, England, Sweden, Spain… » Weiterlesen…

HeinzelCheeseTalk no 6: Piemont! Oct 31, 2014

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Life is hard: late October saw me traveling to Piemont in northern Italy. Think Barolo, Robiola, Nocciole… but hey, for you, my valued cheese friends, I’d do (almost) anything! One gloriously sunny day we were even up and down endless serpentines in the remoter parts of the region to get to the organic farm Amaltea. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month October 2014: Alpkäse 17 months from Jamei, Kempten/Allgäu

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Yes, I’m a week late for this cheese of the month. But there was so much cheese going on over the weekend that I hope and trust the great gods of cheese above (as well as you, my readers and followers down here) to show leniency… in return I’m bringing you this true mountain cheese from the Allgäu, which the great guys from Jamei had on offer at the cheese market of the StadtLandFood festival (no, I won’t even start to rave about this incredible event we managed to make happen… we’d never get to the cheese if I did). » Weiterlesen…

Do you read me – German cheese in Culture magazine

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It’s always and still, in spite of all the blogging and the online stuff, a very special moment to see one’s article finally on the printed page – and if it’s on cheese, and on German cheese at that – hey, what a great day is that!?! So, here it is, a first peep at my piece on the new German cheese in Culture magazine. » Weiterlesen…

Butter, give me butter: HeinzelCheeseTalk no 5 – Sept 26, 2014

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I knew it –  the HeinzelCheeseTalk crowd has evolved into an expert tasting group, and therefore it wasn’t even a risk to focus this meeting all on butter. Which is, after all, also a kind of cheese… and it turned out that no, I am not the only one who can nibble really good butter just like cheese, one small piece after another… » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month September 2014: Frontiera Blue from Mazuria/Poland

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A blue cheese, yet again. Not because I’m feeling blue (the opposite!), but because this cheese is fascinating, delicious, full of character – and makes me want to jump on a train immediately and travel to its origin! Which is: Mazuria, in the northeast of Poland. Sylwia Szlandrowicz and 
Ruslan Kozynko live amongst the rolling verdant hills on which their sheep graze. They called their isolated farm Frontiera, border, and their wonderful cheese very simply Frontiera Blue. » Weiterlesen…