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Polish cheese and wine: HeinzelCheeseTalk no 4, 29.8.14 – a report

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Regular readers of this blog-cum-website will have noticed that in HeinzelCheese land just as anywhere else, summer is traveling time. After Greece, Turkey and the Allgäu I recently went to Poland to find out about the food scene there. Finally! I mean, I grew up and live in Berlin, an hour from the Polish border! Cheese was of course very high on my list of things to research and I did indeed discover lots of good stuff. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month August 2014: Divle Tulum Peyniri – Tulum from Divle/Anatolia, Turkey

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Istanbul, the wonderful crazy city on the Bosporus, always reminds me a little of India: anything seems possible (almost). On my last visit in early June, when I mentioned the word cheese, Aylin Öney Tan, the extremely well connected food expert and columnist, took me to Cankurtaran Gida at the spice bazaar. In the narrow store the kingdom of heaven really is full of sausages and honeycomb and the cooling shelves showcase Turkey’s best cheeses. » Weiterlesen…

Cappadocia: hot air balloons, caves – and wine!

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To be able to experience the past in a kind of time machine instead of just reading about it is for me one of the most exciting experiences ever. And ever since my first Turkey trip (I know, it took me an awfully long time to make it to the Bosporus), the close connection  with the historic beginnings of our civilization has been one of my main fascinations there. And yes, „experience“ does include wine, a serious advantage in the Heinzelcheese universe (it also includes cheese, but that’s a different story for another day). » Weiterlesen…

White, red, and orange: Julian Haart’s Riesling wines and Möhrenlaibchen carrot cheese from Dottenfelder Hof

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Julian Haart’s story is a wine writer’s dream: young man from the Mosel trains as a chef, works in Michelin starred restaurants, but soon notices that in the end, the vineyards‘ call drowns out all the kitchen noise. So he returns to his home region and starts putting together a miniature wine estate, from zero to about 1.5 ha of the choicest vineyards. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month July 2014: Blauer Künstler from Kunst & Käse, Rögnitz/D

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Funnily enough being blue means something totally different German than in English, and that is being drunk (although that could of course induce the blues the day after…). Neither applies to the happy, cheerful woman Ute Rohrbeck is, or her cheeses, which certainly aren’t drunk.
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Hooray – my latest book made it into Harvard!

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Mothers are allowed to be proud of their offspring, and authors should be excused for jumping with joy when their books make their way in the world. Therefore I’m indulging in a little shouting here: Beyond Bratwurst, my book about the history of food in Germany (Reaktion, London) made it into HARVARD! Juchhu and hooray. A glass of Riesling to celebrate is certainly due tonight… » Weiterlesen…

Cheese(s!) of the month June 2014: Graviera, Xinotyri and Anthotyra from Naxos/Greece

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If I tell you that I’m writing this in Athens, looking at the Acropolis, on the last day of my first ever trip to Greece, you’ll easily guess where my cheese of the month is coming from this time. In fact, it is not one, but three, as my food-writing colleague Aglaia Kremezi and her husband Costas Maraitis collected an amazing selection of artisanal cheeses from their home country for an extensive tasting and I just could not settle on a single one. » Weiterlesen…

It’s been a party… was für eine Party – with you!

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Was für eine Party… danke! An alle, die gekommen sind von nah und fern, mit mir gelacht, getrunken und gegessen und meine beiden Buch-Kids gefeiert haben. Eure Großzügigkeit war grenzenlos: wir haben Grandioses in den Gläsern gehabt, supergute Käse, Wurst, Räucherlachskrem und Rote-Bete-Mousse zu großartigem Brot genossen, eigenhändig den Frühling eingerollt und sind wie die Bienen um die Süßwein-Schatzkiste geschwirrt. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month May 2014: Humboldt Fog from Cypress Grove/California, USA

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I’ve told the story many times during the last month, touring the northeast of the US with cheese and new book baby in tow: the reason why I got involved so deeply, with all my heart and soul (and hopefully brain too), with the new German cheese was in fact an American cheese tasting. And that’s why my cheese of the month is Humboldt Fog, a goat cheese from northern California.
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Meet me and my book on Heritage Radio!

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I’m thrilled and proud to report that Linda Pelaccio, the mind behind the Taste of the Past show on Heritage Radio did an interview with me and it’s on air! You can listen to us discussing my book Beyond Bratwurst and German food history now, anywhere, anytime – it’s just a click away. » Weiterlesen…