Also want some cheese for your Sunday afternoon coffeeklatsch but are surrounded by grannies who clamor for sweets and desert? Then goats milk *Chèvre Coeur Gourmand Marrons* by fromagerie Chêne Vert should be your pick of the day.
FORMATICUM…small festival- big cheeses!
REVIEW 2023
Besides eating, photographing, reading and dreaming cheese – traveling cheese is what Gustav and I like to do most. After all it combines all of the above with seeing new places, meeting new people as well as getting together with old friends.
Marzolina – Slow Food, good mood!
Marzolina – Slow Food, good mood!
*Marzolina* the diminutive form of the Italian word for March and a small by size but big by taste cheese from Italy´s Lazio region is a shining goat´s milk member of the PAT (prodotti agroalimentari tradizionali) and Presidio Slow Food family.
Idiazabal – an all spanish PDO delight
Living in Vienna it´s not the eastiest task to get your hands on Spanish cheese not named Manchego, the happier I was when a friend texted me that he brought back some Spanish delights from a recent trip to the farmers market in Tolosa in the basque province of Gipuskoa in the north of Spain.
Lisbon- a Fun Fall Cheese Escape
Living in Austria, Germany or even Italy means that getting your hands on cheese from Portugal is not that easy. The happier I was when a friend from high school called for a reunion meet up in Lisbon.
Delice de Bourgogne – a delightful french beauty
Gustav, who claims he could easily win any beauty contest with any cheese that strolls along, was hiding in the background when the photosession for this creamy beauty took place.
Corsu Vecchiu -an ocean breeze from Corsica
Since cold November days started recently and travels and your Christmas break still seem far away, we at formaggiastic today decided to feature some cheeses you should be able to find in most major cities and still have a product full of flavor, quality and fun. – Today’s table companion: * Corsu Vecchiu *
Progetto Forme 2023– a shape for every occasion
Progetto Forme 2023– a shape for every occasion
Last weekend it was finally time for *Progetto Forme* the annual Cheese Festival in Bergamo, Italy.
For 3 days the upper town of Bergamo dresses in the name of cheese with many things to do, see, taste, experience, and listen to.
Toma here, Toma there – Toma, Toma everywhere
When traveling through northern Italy and its mountainous regions of the Piedmont and Aosta Valley one type of cheese that will often cross your path is a “Toma”.
It´s a mountainous pal – pressed, and often made from skimmed or partially skimmed milk – who finds his relatives in the French and Swiss “Tomme” who are lurking on the other side of the mountain peaks.