Schlagwort: cheese

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…

Cheese people: Anne Saxelby of New York City

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Anne Saxelby’s story is a journo’s dream and has therefore been told many times. But hey, don’t stories become alive that way, by being told again, and again, and again? So here we go… A beautiful young woman from the Chicago suburbs moves to New York City to study art, and subsequently works at galleries and as a museum intern. However, none of these so glamourous sounding things really appeal. The art world seems too precious to her. So she has a rethink, and decides to swap paintings and sculptures with cheese and wine. » Weiterlesen…

Eating Germany VII: a report on my Beyond Bratwurst talks at some US colleges

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For all of you who wonder if I ever return to my desk in Berlin: yes, I will! But at the moment I’m still on the American east coast, proudly showing my new book around while giving talks at Hamilton, Ithaca, Cornell, NYU… It is an immense pleasure and honor to meet so many students willing to listen and learn when I tell them about German cheese, history, national identity, and we then taste some of those Alpine beauties together. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese places: Formaggio Kitchen in Cambridge/Massachusetts, USA

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When I first came to Cambridge/MA in 2009 it was for a seminar on reading old cookbooks as historic sources, given by the amazing food scholar Barbara Ketcham Wheaton (she is doing another one in June this year – go by all means!!) at the Schlesinger Library. It was an intense, studious week which has left all kinds of lasting impressions on me, not the least very good friends and a home away from home at the end of beautiful, posh Brattle Street. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month April 2014: Graukäse from the Ahrn Valley in Alto Adige/Italy

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Graukäse, grey cheese… doesn’t sound exactly sexy, does it? And on top of that unfortunate name, the poor chap habitually has to suffer disfiguration in the form of onion rings and vinegar. Folks, this is just unacceptable. Stop dissing Graukäse and dousing it with cheap acidity right now! Instead, start taking in its real taste. If you feel like totally blank now, surrounded by question marks – before you hit the escape button: this is about the northern Italian cousin of the German Handkäse-Harzer-Korbkäse family. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese places: La Fromagerie, London/UK

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The world of fine cheese is a universe in itself, one of the many food-defined layers that stretch around the globe. It has its own bright stars which serve as guidance to all the other twinklers, simply because they glow with a different kind of energy, passion and experience. One of the most important for cheese is in London, cheese simply wouldn’t be the same without La Fromagerie in Marylebone and the woman behind it: Patricia Michelson. » Weiterlesen…

April 28 & 29, 2014: Meet me at the Bedford Cheese Shop in NYC!

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I’m happy, proud and so excited to announce that I’ll be hosting two classes (yes, two!) at the glorious Bedford Cheese Shop of Brooklyn fame in New York on April 28 and 29. They run from 6.30 till 8.30pm and represent the culminating point of a row of talks, tastings and events that month. It’s all to celebrate my new book, a history of food in Germany ( » Weiterlesen…

Eating Germany II: Bergkäse – mountain cheese calling!

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On the second leg of our Eating Germany tour, we go south, and we go cheese. When in Bavaria, forget the fairy-tale castle that is Neuschwanstein (all right, go, but after that) don your walking boots and discover new landscapes that are much more real! The local Käser and Hirten (or cheese-makers and herdsmen) are happy to talk cheese and cows. They have changed a bit since Heidi’s times » Weiterlesen…

A new favourite cheese producer: Svein Håpnes from Skånaliseter Gårdsysteri in Limingen/Norway

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The Norwegians are one of the few reasons for me to visit the Grüne Woche, as their presentation is clearly based on quality. These friendly Nordic men and women all sport the loveliest redbluewhite starred knitted pullovers and they have aquavit (of course), a lot of fish as well as rendeer and elk meat on offer. However what excited me most this time was the goat cheese (of course) Svein Håpnes showed me. » Weiterlesen…

07. bis 09.03.14 Käsefestival in Taufers/Südtirol, Italien

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Es gibt viele Gründe nach Südtirol zu fahren: Skifahren und ähnlich sportliche Vergnügen in den Dolomiten, richtig gutes Essen, klasse Weine, Italien-Erlebnis mit germanischem Touch… und, Anfang März, Käse! Denn die super-aktive Foodie-Gruppe um Karin Huber und Martin Pircher in Sand in Taufers organisiert nun schon zum elften Mal eine regionale Ausgabe der Cheese.
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