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Cheese of the month August 2013: Piccolo from Carmelis/Okanagan Valley, Canada

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We writers are hunters and gatherers, and as I recently returned from five weeks in England, the US and Canada, my bags were full to the brim with goodies, impressions and wonderful memories. It should come as no surprise then that the cheese of the month stems from far away (well, at least seen from Berlin), that is from British Columbia, in western Canada. Contrary to common belief, polar bears, Inuit and snow are NOT the only features there. The good people of the Okanagan grow wine (and it can be very good – YES!) and some keep goats.  » Weiterlesen…

22.9.13 Slow Food Cheese in Bra/Piedmont: German mountain cheese and Riesling

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A pittoresque medieval small town in Piedmont full of cheeses from all over the world – from September 19th until 23rd the Cheese once again turned Bra into a taste of paradise. Even better: for 90 minutes mountain cheese and top Riesling wines from Germany were in the spotlight of a workshop I have been organising and moderating. As is the case with Slow Food in general and the Cheese (which is taking place every second year, alternating with Salone del » Weiterlesen…

14.-16.7.13 Riesling Rendezvous in Seattle/USA

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I know folks – I should have told you about this event long ago. Somehow I thought Riesling Rendezvous, this great gathering of Riesling producers, writers and sommeliers organised by Château Ste Michelle and Weingut Dr. Loosen didn’t fit into the cheesy subject of this blog. Today though, while hosting a workshop on the pairing of smoked salmon and Riesling, I suddenly realized how wrong I was. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese places: Ultracomida in Aberystwyth/Wales

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Aberystwyth is a small seaside town in the west of Wales, complete with grey stony beach, seagulls and the smell of greasy vinegar from fish and chips shops. It’s pittoresque in spite of the modest way of life of its friendly inhabitants and the university gives it an additional jump in ist step. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month July 2013: Grotteost from Hitra Gårdsmat

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I’d like to be completely open about one thing straight away: you won’t find this cheese just around the corner, even worse, you won’t find it pretty much around any corner. Nevertheless Grotteost, the cave cheese Bodil Birkeland makes on the Hitra island in Norway, is my cheese of the month. I mean, if this isn’t the right time of the year for at least some cheese-loving people to be attracted by the midnight sun and the North Cape…  » Weiterlesen…