Schlagwort: cheese

Cheese of the month February 2014: Queijo de Ovelha Amanteigado Curado from Quinta da Serra da Gardunha/Portugal

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I know, I’m writing a lot about Portugal these days. But life rarely flows in a quiet stream, balanced, temperate and calm. Rather, it’s leaping and jumping ahead. And that means that at the moment the wild country on the Atlantic coast looms large in my world. After my beautiful excursion to the Alentejo in the fall (about which more here) I was slightly mad with myself for returning without one of the onctuous sheeps‘ milk cheeses from the center of Portugal. » Weiterlesen…

It’s been a red red night: German Pinot Noir x 3

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Pinot and me, we have a real love hate thing going on. He (yes, definitely he) can be so delicious and utterly attractive, basically non-resistable, and yet so cruel. Next morning, that is. Nothing worse than trying to tackle your morning run with a head full of pinot fumes… I’m not sure why that is, but I think that the low yield, slow fermentation and long skin contact necessary for great pinot produce some stuff on the side that has that not so special effect.  » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month January 2014: Ricotta from Torricelle, Paestum/I

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Since a few months there is a new stall at the farmers market at Markthalle Neun, the revived old covered market hall in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. Alessandro Salerno for some reason is totally determined to provide Berliners with the absolutely best possible buffalo mozzarella. Although at least from an Italian point of view, buffalo is redundant in this case, because mozzarella per definition is made from buffalo milk, and anything else is called Fior di Latte and of a completely different texture and taste. » Weiterlesen…

HeinzelCheeseTalks at Markthalle Neun in Berlin-Kreuzberg

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It’s been a great winter and I loved our Friday Eatdrinktalk sessions at Markthalle Neun. But all things must change to stay the same  – spring is looming, summer will come and I’ll be travelling again, always on the lookout for great wine, cheese, and stories around them. Which is exactly what I’d like to share with you from now one, once a month, at Markthalle Neun: the Heinzelcheese Talks. » Weiterlesen…

Fribourg, Yvorne and MFK’s love story

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I recently had to travel to Switzerland for a day, to interview somebody who lives near Luzern. Thinking I was very clever and would catch two flies with one swat, as we say in German, I planned my trip to fly into Geneva and visit Fribourg cheesemakers, then travel by train to Luzern – only to find out that the cheese date wouldn’t happen. And that the Swiss train fares are even more expensive than the German ones. To cut it short: I felt like a dammed fool for not rebooking my ticket to Zurich, which would have been a short hop… » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month December 2013: Stichelton from Nottinghamshire/UK

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Winter without Stilton is like summer without Riesling, great meals without wine, life without love and friendship… well, you get the idea. But just as there is good Riesling and better Riesling and you might like some friends just that little bit more, there is good and better in the world of blue cheeses under the name of Stilton. And the best is Stichelton. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month November 2013: Pouligny St Pierre, Berry and Touraine/France

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For most people in this part of the world November sounds somehow dark, melancholy and altogether grey. But first, at least for now the late autumn sun is still shining beautifully, second the grey is a great excuse after all the summer outdoors time to settle in at home (cook a lot! music! read!) and third (I know, this is supposed to be a cheese blog) with the right cheese on the table, things will look much better, immediately. » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the month October 2013: Beecher’s Flagship Reserve, Seattle & NYC/USA

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No excuse for yet another offering from the English speaking cheese world! I’m fully aware though that American Cheddar from glasswalled facilities in both Seattle and midtown New York sounds like more show than content, more Disneyland than real character… but the American cheeselogic often works completely against what we European cheesaholics assume. Beecher’s Flagship Reserve is a gorgeous cheese, fullstop. » Weiterlesen…