Ursula Heinzelmann, Wein- & Essenschreiberin
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…
Dearest and nearest friends in cheese – we have cheddared, we have cheddared intensely… Now we know that Cheddar isn’t only the supermarket stuff to put on sandwiches and melt on burgers. Or, at the other end of the wide spectrum, exclusive farmhouse cheese handcrafted in Somerset. » Weiterlesen…
And the cheese goes on… the first Sunday in November was a big day: cheese was reigning high at Markthalle Neun. From 11am till 7pm we’ve been celebrating the third annual Cheese Berlin with old friends such as the Rheingau-Affineur and Fritz Blomeyer, market mongers like Menze and Knippenberg as well as regional producers (Capriolenhof, Pimpinelle, Ogrosen…), and others who had to travel a little longer, from the Allgäu, England, Sweden, Spain… » Weiterlesen…
Life is hard: late October saw me traveling to Piemont in northern Italy. Think Barolo, Robiola, Nocciole… but hey, for you, my valued cheese friends, I’d do (almost) anything! One gloriously sunny day we were even up and down endless serpentines in the remoter parts of the region to get to the organic farm Amaltea. » Weiterlesen…
Regular readers of this blog-cum-website will have noticed that in HeinzelCheese land just as anywhere else, summer is traveling time. After Greece, Turkey and the Allgäu I recently went to Poland to find out about the food scene there. Finally! I mean, I grew up and live in Berlin, an hour from the Polish border! Cheese was of course very high on my list of things to research and I did indeed discover lots of good stuff. » Weiterlesen…