Remembering my friend Alan
My friend Alan Wadey slipped away from us quietly, drawing his last breath in the middle of the night last week. His departure from our midst at 96 years […]
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Austria delivers: delicious cheeses direct from alpine cows
It figures that Austria would be the country to satisfy our hungry search for some of Europe’s best and most interesting cheese. When we set out on The Meanderthals European […]
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Still no local cheese, but we’re learning new words
Key phrases we’ve learned and deployed thus far in the Meanderthals 2023 European Cheese Tour: “Ferme” (‘closed’, in France and Belgium, as in ‘all the cheese shops and manufacturers are […]
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Curdless start for four intrepid cheese sleuths
Four friends met in Prague, two of them highly motivated to search for interesting European cheeses. All four came from places with historical relationships with all things curd: one Cypriot […]
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Hearts and heads full of Dunkirk
The mournful sound of bagpipes drifted across the sandy beach, emanating from the other side of a tiny canal that separates the mainland from the shores of Dunkirk. On a […]
» Read moreMeanderthals hit the road on European Tour des Fromage
The Meanderthals are hitting the road again, this time with cheesy intent. Even the most astute food historian isn’t clear on when cheese was invented, but there’s a school of […]
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