Don´t you also sometimes think “ ugh – would be great to taste this cheese when just a little younger or maybe even stone-age old?” Asiago can make this happen and Gustav and I were lucky enough to gather a few generations together.
Oaxaca cheese – (not) a mexican traveller
Just a few days ago Gustav and presented a cheese from Georgia that came to us via secret paths. But unfortunately not all of…
Guda – Georgia´s funky mountain cheese
Gustav and I are truly lucky people – we have messengers of whom some are family, some are friends, and often they are family…
Schottenkäse – go dutch austrian style!
If you live in Vienna it´s almost mandatory to visit one of the many Christmas markets dotted over the city map. And as Gustav…
Dambal ´khacho – catch him if you can!
* Dambal ´khacho * from Georgia secretly crossed borders and made it´s way to Vienna ! Unfortunately team formaggiastic cannot travel all the time…
Squacquerone di Romagna – time to ooze!
I can tell you – there is always one more cheese one has not yet heard of or tasted! Last weekend while I was…
Chabichou du Poitou – nothing else to be said…
* Chabichou du Poitou* – just the name melts on your tongue…. – but before we get to try this little goat´s milk majesty…
pit stop @ the Cheese Board Collective
Do you know the feeling when a travel or excursion is proposed to you and the first thought that strikes your head is –…
Willi Schmid – swiss mastermind of cheese
I wanted to write this blog post for a while – but was thinking “who doesn´t know Willi Schmid – Swiss Mastermind of Cheese?…
Say Cheese! – formaggiastic´s artsy intermezzo
Say Cheese! – Some of you might have seen on Instagram or in the media that formaggiastic together with the photographer Natascha Auenhammer organized…
Divle Obruk Peyniri- all but average
When your friends are scattered around the globe, spontaneous beers are a rare joy, but on the upside you get inside-views of other cultures…
Danish Blue – Roqueforts northern ancestor
When I think of Denmark, I think of tall, skinny people, maybe eating a Danish version of Gouda and mainly drinking milk instead of…
Voitsberg – an all styrian cheese festival
This year the town of Voitsberg in Styria, for the 16th time, hosted the Styrian “milk-street festival” in the setting of the town´s medieval…
Mothais sur Feuille – le grand dame du Poitou-Charentes
This grand dame is a Mothais sur Feuille from the Poitou-Charentes region in France. She’s made out of raw goats milk and ripens cosily…
Camembert travels south – the story of the Camellema
Over the past few days and weeks we all read and heard a lot about the “war on camembert”, “the death of an icon”,…