Sensing up

A Podcast to listen to with your five senses!

Transhumance, Terroir & Tradition

If you have been following us for a while now, you would have heard about the importance of seasonality in the life of a cheese. To keep this idea simple, let's say it all has to do with what the animals are eating. But when you get to places near the Alps or the Pyrenees, spring and summer means that you can reach higher altitudes for your animals to graze on richer pastures. And I have been extraordinarily lucky to have been invited to walk along professional shepherds who managed to guide around 100 sheep to higher pastures. In the...

Our Favourite Winter Cheeses

Winter is far from my favorite season, but I only need to think cheese, and more particularly melted cheese, and I instantly feel better about the cold temperatures we are facing for the next few months. Seasonality has a big role to play in the way we consume food in...

Is Cheese Such a Luxury?

The word LUXURY is one that instantly conjures up such a wide range of different images and reactions specific to each one of us. To my children, it seems to resonate more along the lines of the ‘unaffordable’, ‘super exclusive’ and mostly ‘unnecessary’ indulgences. To me, with full time work, four...

The Art of Affinage

Affinage: n. [afeenajh] The period of maturation or refinement of a cheese during which it is kept in an ideal environment and receives care. Traditionally, this care comes by way of observation and treatment by hand. The ideal environment is natural surfacing in a cave with a particular level of...