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New Book for Cheese Lovers!

Posted on January 14th, 2010 by Leon the Milkman.
Categories: Art, Cheese, Milkman.

I received this letter and link form a reader of the Milkman’s Blog.

“Pierre Androuet: Cheese is the soul of the soil. It is the purest and most romantic link between humans and the earth.

Inspired by the above I have recently published a book enitled Tasting to Eternity ( www.tastingtoeternity.com) I thought you might enjoy a unique view of these remarkable products.

Enjoy

David Nutt”

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Tetilla Cheese

Posted on August 23rd, 2008 by Leon the Milkman.
Categories: Art, Cheese, Milk.

Hi, Dairy Fans

Hier is ‘n interessante storie van een van my kaaskursus studente:
Ons het in St Jean Pied de Port aan die Franse kant van die Pyrenees begin, die middel deel tussen Burgos en Leon uitgesny, so 520km gestap. Een BAIE nice legende daar oor kaas, as jy nie ken soek op. In die kerk self waar die apostel se graf is, versier met fantastiese beeldhouwerk, word teen een pilaar Jeremia, Jesaja, Moses en Daniel uitgebeeld, Daniel met hierdie salige smile op sy gesig, wat beweer was as gevolg was van die beeld van ‘n beeldskone jong kaalbors vrou aan die oorkantste pilaar. Die kerkleiers het toe besluit om die uitlokkende borste plat te maak en sy dra deesdae ‘n tabberd. Die boere het op ‘n protes van hulle eie besluit en vervaardig tot vandag ‘n kaas in die vorm van die offensiewe liggaamsdele. Hulle noem dit Tetilla (‘klein bors’, nie so klein soms, kan 1kg wees). Dis ‘n baie lekker sagterige kaas van koeimelk. Dis net so beroemd in die noorde soos die kaas wat in Arzúa (Queixo) gemaak word. Daniel is 2de van links, en die ronde kase is Queixo, die ander obvious.

Here is an interesting story told to me by one of my cheese course students:

While in Spain they followed in the footsteps of James, the Apostle. At his grave there are the statues of Jeremiah, Isaiah, Moses and Daniel. Daniel has this all-saying smile, supposedly from looking at the statue of a beautiful bare-breasted girl on the opposite side. The church-leaders of the time were enraged by this and did away with the breast and dressed the girl. The farmers were very upset about this and protested by making and selling cheese shaped like breasts, these are called tetilla, meaning “small-breasted” - although they can weigh up to 1kg. It is a very nice soft cheese from cow milk. It is just as famous in the north as the cheese(Queixo) made in Arzùa. In the pics Daniel is second from the left and the other not-booby-shaped cheese is Queixo.

Aaaah, the wonderful world of cheese

Cheers,

Leon the Milkman

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Doris makes cheese.

Posted on December 13th, 2006 by Leon the Milkman.
Categories: Art, Cheese, Milk.

Doris the Cheese Maker!

Doris says,

“I want to make cheese because I am curious. Curious if I am able to MAKE what most other people BUY, to find out the process that is behind the neatly wrapped yellow squares in the supermarkets and to be independent from the market.
 I started by asking my network of family and friends, the knowledge that they gave me I substitued with books and info on the internet. I put these little bits and pieces of information together and began the process of making my first cheese. Leon the milkman helped me with the finishing touches.
 

I was so excited when I tasted my first cheese, and so were my friends: “Did you really make this? I did not know that one can make cheese on their own!”
But the excitement goes much further: it encourages me to try a lot of things that I considered impossible before.”
 Doris Spielbuechler, Austria, currently Fine Arts student in Stellenbosch, South Africa
(Within my practise as a fine arts student I work with food issues regarding cultural aspects, global distribution, access and the power of the market)

Thanks, Doris for the post