Ursula Heinzelmann, Wein- & Essenschreiberin
It took a long time to convince Heinzelcheese of the Käsekrainer’s merits. Cheese in a sausage, that sounds like so gimmicky and junky. But as is so often the case in that funny thing called life, there came a moment recently when I was able to see the possibility of the positive contrary: thank you Simon, never sleeping sausage man! » Weiterlesen…
The Heinzelcheese network is constantly expanding… no, I haven’t been to Japan (actually I’ve been to Newfoundland, but more on that another cheese time). However, yesterday, my wonderful friend Serendipity surprised me with this soy-mash refined cheese from Itoshima – and obviously I’d like to share this with you! Even if only in words and pictures; due to the long distance travel it’s been a very small piece. Tak Kohaku is a semihard cheese that reminds me of Tilsiter or Havarti. But its very special aroma, soft and yet complex, makes me think of fermented black beans used in Chinese cuisine, as well as the very best, richest Sake wines… » Weiterlesen…
It was one of the most impressive encounters of those intense months: Chäschuchi Gersbach, the last stop on the Southwest leg of the research trips in early 2008 for my first book on cheese, Erlebnis Käse und Wein. Almost 13,000 kilometres, to visit more than 120 cheese producers all over Germany, amongst them Gersbach, a small, picturesque town in the southern part of the Black Forest. There were fresh, soft and semi-hard cheeses in all kinds of versions, quark and yogurt, and I liked all of it – but Silberdistel, that was… wow. Awesome. In a class of its own. » Weiterlesen…
Erzincan Tulum Peynir, the sheep milk cheese from the mountains in northeast Anatolia – after my visits there in July of last year and this April this translates into so many wonderful pictures, so many impressions and thoughts. The landscape of mountain plateaus rising high above the Karasu valley, the black river that is called Euphrates further south. Animals and people living in an impressive symbiosis. » Weiterlesen…
„The first wolf is already around! We just had to to start, otherwise it would have been too late.“ Indirectly this is the story of the Langenburger Schafkäserei’s latest creation, their Pyrenäenkäse or Pyrenees cheese. In contrast to some of his colleagues Norbert Fischer isn’t against the re-introduction of wolves in the wild on principle. „I’m happy to live with wolves“, he says, „I like the wilderness, I’d love to have much more of it.“ » Weiterlesen…