Robiola di Roccaverano- A cheese & leaf love

November 8, 2011

If Martha Stewart ever got a hold of a Robiola di Roccaverano, I’m pretty sure she’d mandate every cheese be wrapped in leaves before being served in her presence. This leaf-on-cheese action is cuter than a toddler walking a puppy. It’s more adorable than Zooey Deschanel watching a toddler walk a puppy. It proves that leaves and cheese are made to be together.

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My November cheese classes

November 3, 2011

While I’m mainly confining myself to my writing cave (bedroom) for the next couple months until I finish my manuscript that’s due in January, I am emerging occasionally to eat, take hot showers, walk around the block, and teach a cheese class or two.
Here are two classes that I’m teaching at the Cheese School of [...]

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Burrata Plea: Consider Fall. And Winter. And Finter.

October 25, 2011

As the weather grows colder in the rest of the country (the San Francisco bay area just seems to be getting hotter, let’s leave us out of this), I’ve been reminded of one burrata thing. Burrata is not seasonal. Believe it or not, my summer caprese salad lovers, people make burrata in the fall. Even the winter. Sometimes even in that period between the two, known as finter.

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Backyard Lovin Class: Cheese & Wine of Sonoma Marin, This Thursday

October 20, 2011

With vast green hills dotted with lazy cows as close as Marin and Sonoma, we don’t need to go to France to experience dairy heaven. It’s right in our own back yard.

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Cheese & Wine Pairing: A Zinful Love

October 11, 2011

Because Zinfandel is a cheese miracle worker. Zin does to big cheeses what high heels do for miniskirts. It gives them a happy little boost. Even the bigger, plusher ones.

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Tomme Brulée: Blowtorches in the Cheese Cave

October 3, 2011

If you walk into a cheese shop and ask for Basque cheese, chances are you’ll be led to Petit Agour or Petit Basque. Some wheels, made in small production batches, will be amazing. Others, made by larger companies in factories, are little more than pale interpretations of the real thing- like fat free cake with sugar free frosting, or roller blades instead of the four wheelers. But there’s another sheep’s milk that’s escaped the Pryenées that shouldn’t be missed.

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