Ursula Heinzelmann, Wein- & Essenschreiberin
This cheese is for all those who keep complaining about the supposedly unbearable grey of Berlin’s weather during these first months of the year. You’re starting to sound a little boring – is there no sun in your hearts? Your wine glasses? Apparently not, and I therefore present you with some on the cheeseboard…
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I bet you thought you knew exactly what kind of cheese Camembert is. Round, white on the outside, yellow on the inside, soft, made from cow’s milk, rather mild. And the posher versions come in fancy little wooden boxes… well, yes, of course. Problem is, in contrast to Comté or Roquefort, the name as such isn’t protected. Which means that a lot of cheeses fitting more or less those descriptors, come to market under it. » Weiterlesen…
January. A new year. The old one much celebrated, recently. Which is why this cheese of the month is not only a teeny bit late in the coming but also a rather quiet, modest, yet totally delicious brick. Bauernkäse means farmer’s cheese, and it’s not to be confused with what most Americans think that is (and which it is not, not quark, I mean), and it doesn’t of course tell you anything about the cheese. » Weiterlesen…
A truly festive, pre-holiday HeinzelCheeseTalk, as blue as the summer sea around the Greek Cyclades, the Icelandic salt virgin, the jellyfish aquarium in Californian Monterey, the top of the Empire State Building in New York, and the icy Canadian landscape on the way to it… Oh, you ask if there was any cheese? Of course, dear friends, of course. And wine! » Weiterlesen…
Without much ado: December’s cheese of the month is Montgomery’s Cheddar. True, Heinzelcheese right now is pretty much focussed on Cheddar. But hey – what’s wrong with that? If you insist on an explanation, it may be due to the first real taste of winter the cold easterly wind is spreading, which makes me long for a dense cheese with lots of glorious butter-iness (but not a hint of greasiness!). » Weiterlesen…