Category Archives: cheese

How do you find…?

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Heather Jarman

This sounds like a question you type into Google, but it’s what my clients ask me when I’ve taken them to a cheese maker on a mountain top or a handloom weaver in an unmarked house in a higgledy-piggledy mediaeval … Continue reading →

Posted in cheese, FESTAS, ICE CREAM / GELATO, RESTAURANT, SEAFOOD, TRADITION, Tuscany | 6 Comments

Three generations of women learn the secrets of ricotta

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Heather Jarman

Yesterday I took three generations of women to Vitelina’s dairy to learn to make ricotta and then to Beatrice Salvi’s hotel for a lesson in baking a traditional Garfagnana ricotta pie. You can’t make ricotta unless you make cheese first, so … Continue reading →

Posted in cheese, COOKING, RICOTTA | 7 Comments

Rice, Gorgonzola & Frogs

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Heather Jarman

Rice grows in water. Frogs live in water. It’s only a short hop to frog risotto. My beekeeper friend Francesca and I were travelling with Massimo, a rice farmer and our guide for the day, to L’Angolo Perduto, a restaurant … Continue reading →

Posted in cheese, frogs, rice | 8 Comments

Panini Girl on the Farm

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Heather Jarman

‘Going to the farm and having lunch there was so very special. We all enjoyed everything about the day. It is surely one we will remember forever!’ So wrote Janie Trayer about the day tour she and her group of … Continue reading →

Posted in cheese, FARM, RICOTTA | 3 Comments

Progress

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Heather Jarman

All winter I’ve been banned from taking clients to visit one of my favourite cheesemakers because they were rebuilding the dairy. When you arrived at the old dairy you entered a shabby sitting room with an old table in the … Continue reading →

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