I like this quote: Making cheese takes hours. The best thing is cracking open a tomme [a wheel of cheese]. We were away in Rome this whole winter and we ate a lot of cheese in Italy, but to come home and go down to the cellar and bring up a tomme and open it up and eat it is just an amazing thing. First of all, it tastes incredible -- I'm completely biased but it tastes better than anything I had in Italy. We know what went into it -- the animals who made the milk, the grass the animals ate, the process of making it, the microbes that went into it. So, having been displaced, there's this wonderful sense of homecoming -- not only coming back to this house in this valley, but then to have a piece of food, to ingest a piece of the landscape in a very physical, immediate and almost primal way.
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I like this quote:
ReplyDeleteMaking cheese takes hours. The best thing is cracking open a tomme [a wheel of cheese]. We were away in Rome this whole winter and we ate a lot of cheese in Italy, but to come home and go down to the cellar and bring up a tomme and open it up and eat it is just an amazing thing. First of all, it tastes incredible -- I'm completely biased but it tastes better than anything I had in Italy. We know what went into it -- the animals who made the milk, the grass the animals ate, the process of making it, the microbes that went into it. So, having been displaced, there's this wonderful sense of homecoming -- not only coming back to this house in this valley, but then to have a piece of food, to ingest a piece of the landscape in a very physical, immediate and almost primal way.
I vote yes! Cheese please! -S
ReplyDeleteGoats would be a sensible way to deal with that hillside.
ReplyDeleteI suppose I would have to milk the goats in addition to terracing the hill....
ReplyDeleteCarol
SOMEBODY's got to milk the goats. Don't forget feeding the chickens and collecting the eggs. I'll be willing to try making cheese.
ReplyDeleteAlso someone will need to grind the corn and wheat, on the bicycle grain mill, for the waffles. I'll be out picking the berries.