A Window in Venice
Just a quick hello from Venice. Here is my window onto the Grand Canal, a view that affords Madame Fromage a glimpse of gondolas, water taxis, and river rats (small transport boats, not creatures with tails). And so cheese comes into Venice. Here, trash is picked up daily. A single grocery store serves the islands’ [...]
I took a little cheese retreat
I have a thing for hermitages. They’re where hermits live. Just outside of Philadelphia, there is a retreat center called Clare House with five hermitages in the woods around Aston, Pennsylvania. I went there earlier this spring to write and to spend a few quiet evenings sans gmail. I needed a g-break. I felt Twitter-sick and [...]
When Italy Calls
I know, I know, the timing is terrible. Here it is just days before the book drops, and I am packing my cheese valise to spend three weeks in Italy. Last fall when I agreed to lead a food tour across northern Italy for Saint Joseph’s University students (yes, Madame works!), I didn’t really think [...]
Guava, Twitter, and Diner’s Journal
When I posted about pairing guava and cheddar, I never expected to get an email from Brazilian cheese blogger Renata Curzi. Renata let me know — in the kindest way — that pairing guava with cheese is old school. I’m just late to the game. Renata told me she had a surprise, and three days later [...]
From Zingerman’s With Love
Last weekend, a pair of hobbits couriered some cheese from Ann Arbor, Michigan to Philadelphia in their luggage. The hobbits are a petit couple who, like mice, can eat their weight in cheese without gaining girth, and before coming to Philadelphia they scouted out the best shnibbles at Zingerman’s — thanks to some help from [...]
