8 items tagged “cheese”
2020
When you talk with cheese aficionados, it doesn’t usually take long for the conversation to veer this way: away from curds, whey, and mold, and toward matters of life and death. With the zeal of nineteenth-century naturalists, they discuss great lineages and endangered species, painstakingly cataloguing those cheeses that are thriving and those that are lost to history.
How a Cheese Goes Extinct (via) Ruby Tandoh writes for the New Yorker about the culture, history and anthropology of cheesemaking through the lens of the British cheese industry. I learned that two of my favourite British cheeses—Tymsboro and Innes Log, have sadly ceased production. Beautifully written.
2010
Getting married and going travelling
It’s been a busy month. On Saturday the 5th of June I married the wonderful Natalie Downe in a beautiful ceremony at Roedean School in Brighton. The reception had owls, cheese, a ferret, a golden eagle, amazing Turkish food, Jewish chair dancing and lovely guests. It was the happiest day of my life.
[... 342 words]2007
Stichelton: Raw-Milk Stilton (via) We tried this at the Great British Cheese Festival the other week and really liked it, without knowing any of the interesting background.
Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day. What’s a pirate’s favourite cheese? Cornish Yaaaarg!
My photos tagged “cheese” on a Google Map. You can paste a Flickr GeoRSS feed directly in to the Google Maps query box.
2006
The Great British Cheese Festival. Now on Upcoming—a weekend of cheese!
2004
Cheese-rolling gets back on track. I guess I missed the cheese rolling this year.