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…