Ursula Heinzelmann, Wein- & Essenschreiberin
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…