Schlagwort: cheese

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…

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…

Cheese of the Month March 2013: Maria Pott’s Nieheimer

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The crazy days of carnival aren’t my cup of tea at all. The time after Ash Wednesday fits in much better with the winterly grey that stubbornly clings to Berlin until way into March. Unfortunately that mood also befits my cheese of the month. Sadly this has to be the obituary of a real character amongst German cheeses, Maria Pott’s Nieheimer. » Weiterlesen…

2011 Elesko Riesling 1 and Valençay

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What do I know about Slowakian Riesling? Embarrassingly little, such as that this one, the 2011 „1“ from Elesko, grows in the small Carpathians in the Modra region, not even two hours drive east of Vienna. And that with 12% alcohol it is light in a very pleasant way, but in the depth of winter also quite refreshing due to the characteristic Riesling acidity!  » Weiterlesen…

Cheese of the Month February 2013: Remeker from the van de Voort family in Lunteren/NL

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I was really happy to see Jan Dirk van de Voort again at the Berlin Slow Food Cheese fair in November. I met him during my extensive research trip on Gouda in 2009 (read about it in Effilee #13). Actually, to mention him together with what at least in Germany is mostly used as a vague collective term for firm cheese of the unexciting kind is not doing him any favour. The Remeker cheese he is producing near Utrecht in the western part of the Netherlands belongs to a completely different class. » Weiterlesen…