As an ex-cheesemaker, I was excited to hear about Le Fromager du Pekin, which, according to a Daily Telegraph article, is Beijing's first French-style Chinese cheese manufacturer.
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Liu Yang learned his craft in France while studying management. After befriending a shepherd who taught him how to make goat's cheese in Corsica, he
On his return to China, he set up shop, importing equipment from France and asking a local engineer to make him a cheese-making vat. Mr Liu makes blue cheeses and a Camembert with the slightly disappointing name, "Beijing Grey."
Having thought hard about Chinese cheese names suitable for The Peking Order, I came up with a controversial mild Dutch cheese made on the Yangtze River, the “Three Gorges Edam.”
Another suggestion for Mr Liu is a tribute to China’s first emperor and his mausoleum in Xi’an, the “TerRICOTTA Warrior.”
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ReplyDeleteI have a penchant for MAOzzerella
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The only cheese allowed during the China's Cultural Revolution was Red Leicester
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ReplyDeleteWhat is this Mr Webb? Now semi-free from government imposed censorship, you feel the need to put your own kind of strangle hold on proceedings.
What's that, you want free speech on the Webb?
'Hard cheese' i'm afraid.