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Cheese people: Fritz Lloyd Blomeyer

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The first time I heard about Fritz Lloyd Blomeyer was on a menu the Berlin winebar Rutz announced for a special evening. His name stood next to the cheese course like that of an artist next to his work. I googled him, but couldn’t find any address. However it became clear to me that the Rutz team was ahead of the game once again when I ordered cheese at another Berlin restaurant some weeks later. Amazed and full of respect I discovered on the plate in front of me two slices of perfectly mature Blühende Landschaften, flowering landscapes. This goat cheese from the Brandenburg top producer Capriolenhof is not only hard to find, but extremely delicate. „We get it from Fritz Blomeyer,“ the somm said. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month April 2013: goat cheese from Griciunai, Lithuania

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Spring is extremely late this year. At least up in the north of Germany where we are, some of the traditional easter fires have been cancelled because of the cold. Not much fresh green for cows, goats or sheep! The virtual weather forecast confirms my suspicions that further east the thermometer doesn’t even make it above freezing point: the cheese of the month comes from Lithuania. I met its maker Dalia Emuzyte in January at the Grüne Woche agricultural fair in Berlin. » Weiterlesen…

Goodbye Peter Klann

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My friend Peter Klann, baker extraordinaire, died on March 28. I met him in spring 2002 while working on an article about oil. At the time he was operating a tiny artisan oil mill an hour from Berlin. When I went to see him to learn more (and taste his fantastic products from walnuts, linseed, peanuts, nigella, poppy seed and much more) he told me that his real interest, his soul, was in bread. And we actually met again two years later when bread had reclaimed him and became very good friends. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese people: Manuela and Norbert from Kaeskuche

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This category needs a kickstart! It’s not that I’m too lazy to work on it, honest, just so many other things to do all the time… But the Bavarian superteam from Kaeskuche who courageously export Alpine cheesy stuff to the States, England, Singapore and Dubai are absolutely the first in line to be written about. » Weiterlesen…